Taming Cancer: 21st Century Biology and the Future of Cancer Medicine

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Drawing on his four decades of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, a biochemist and developer of innovative cancer medicines illuminates the astounding discoveries that are changing the paradigm of cancer medicine from toxic treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation to ingenious targeted therapeutics and immunotherapies that attack cancer at its molecular roots and empower the immune system to seek out and destroy tumors, thereby offering new hope to metastatic cancer patients.

Through vivid storytelling and the use of accessible language and analogies from everyday life, and with a knack for making the most complex of human ailments approachable, the author takes readers inside the research laboratories and cancer clinics where these breakthrough innovations are transformed into safer and more effective cancer medicines than previous generations of drugs. Meet the innovators behind medical marvels such as engineered T cells (CAR-T), oncolytic viruses, and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) that were once found only in the realm of science fiction and are now providing long-term remissions for some patients lasting years and even decades.

Taming Cancer concludes with an inspiring and hopeful vision of a future when cancer will be managed as a chronic disease, much like rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes. For the most responsive patients, the eradication of cancer cells from the body—the long-sought cure for cancer—will become a reality for increasing numbers of patients.