The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last Audiobook (Free)

A world-class oncologist’s devastating and deeply personal study of cancer We have lost the battle on tumor. We spend $150 billion every year treating it, yet — a few enhancements notwithstanding — an individual with tumor is as likely to die of it as one was fifty years ago. Most new drugs add mere weeks to one’s life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza presents a searing accounts of how both medicine and our culture (mis)treats cancer, how exactly we can do better, and why we must. A lyrical trip from desire to despair and again, The First Cell explores malignancy from every position: medical, scientific, ethnic, and personal. Certainly, Raza explains how she bore the terrible burden of being her personal husband’s oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia. Like When Breathing Becomes Atmosphere, The First Cell is certainly no ordinary reserve of medicine, but a publication of knowledge and grace by an writer who has dedicated her existence to producing the unbearable better to bear.