In my view, any critique of the narration is unfounded, but to each their own. She started her research in Myelodysplastic Syndromes (. The narration of the work by the author's daughter, Sheherzad Raza Preisler, brings a personal touch and an evident emotional connection to the stories such as Harvey's (Raza's a husband and Preisler's father) who endured the cruelty of cancer's worst assaults. Raza is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York, NY. Her incites and driving thesis on a need for change toward the preventative direction, if heeded, surely would bring about a more compassionate and scientifically effective paradigm. The book lays out the paradoxes of life and the day to day realities of living as a mortal being as it also forwards a potent critique of the established paradigm of cancer research and its failings in both treatment, financial burdens, and improving quality and length of life. She talks about her book The First Cell and how it advocates for the earliest possible detection and elimination of cancer at the first stage, first cell level. Raza is both a brilliant scientist and a deep thinker who can deftly navigate precise scientific details and the emotionally vibrant literature of the humanities. Raza discusses the footprints of cancer and cancer-related statistics. The First Cell is a refreshingly disturbing take on cancer that spares no details on real life suffering and the degradation and death wrought by the disease that kills hundreds of thousands in the US alone every year. If you're unable to attend the event and would like a signed copy of The First Cell , please purchase the "Signed" version below.Compassionate and Sobering Look at Cancer Please register for this FREE event here.
In addition to publishing widely in basic and clinical cancer research, Raza is also the coeditor of the highly acclaimed website. Like When Breath Becomes Air, The First Cell is no ordinary book of medicine, but a book of wisdom and grace by an author who has devoted her life to making the unbearable easier to bear.Īzra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong professor of medicine and the director of the MDS Center at Columbia University.
Indeed, Raza describes how she bore the terrible burden of being her own husband's oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia. A lyrical journey from hope to despair and back again, The First Cell explores cancer from every angle: medical, scientific, cultural, and personal. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet - a few innovations notwithstanding - a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago.
A world-class oncologist's devastating and deeply personal examination of cancer.
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