THE FIRST CELL And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

World-renowned professor of oncology and related specialties, Azra Raza has written a devastating critique of current treatments for cancer. Narrator Sheherzad Preisler, the author's daughter, takes a deliberate, almost clinical, approach that drives the author's message home. Through painful anecdotes and historical analyses Preisler states that modern cancer treatments are most often too late and crippled by doctrinaire treatment approaches. The diseases themselves develop into an unstoppable series of bankrupting and agonizing horrors. She demonstrates that there is hope, however, through research innovations that would detect cancer at its earliest cellular stage--hence, her title, THE FIRST CELL. Preisler's narration is clinical, but the viewpoint expressed is profound and propelled by realistic hope. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2020]