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Starred Review on September 15, 2015 | Science and Technology
DeVita (medical oncology & epidemiology, Yale Univ.) is a pioneer in the development of chemotherapy and one of the biggest names in oncology. This title, cowritten with the author's daughter DeVita-Raeburn (The Empty Room), a journalist who covers science, health, and society, is a lively personal history of cancer treatment sprinkled with biography, patients' stories, politics, doctors behaving badly, and plenty of unvarnished opinion. DeVita begins with the development of combination chemotherapy in the ear...Log In or Sign Up to Read More