The End of the Beginning Audiobook (Free)

For the first time since a fifth-century Greek physician gave the name “cancer” (karkinos, in Greek) to a deadly disease first described in Egyptian Papyri, the medical world is near a breakthrough that could allow even the most conservative doctors and pragmatic patients to use the other “c word”-cure-in the same sentence as cancer. A remarkable series of events has brought us up to now, thanks in large part to a new ability to more efficiently harness the extraordinary power of the human about The End of the Beginning immune system. THE FINISH of the start is an extraordinary history of tumor treatment as well as the advancement of our understanding of its powerful interplay using the disease fighting capability. Through Michael Kinch’s personal experience as a tumor researcher at Washington University and the top of the oncology program at a leading biotechnology firm, we witness the incredible build up of breakthrough research and its speedy translation into life-saving technology that have begun to dramatically increase the quality and level of life for malignancy patients. Growing upon Kinch’s personal remarkable projects to encompass the vaccines becoming deployed to remove cervical cancers and the development of cancer-specific “wise bombs” by means of monoclonal antibodies, cellular therapies, and checkpoint inhibitors, THE FINISH of the start reveals the incredible transformation of cancers treatment happening today.