Showing that compassion is just as important for cancer patients as the drugs administered to them, Raza’s deeply personal work brings understanding and empathy to the fore in a way that a purely scientific explication never could. Progress is being made on this front, she shows, but only a small percentage of available research dollars are being spent on it. Why FCC A new kind of cancer research center We are a group of dedicated clinicians and scientists on a mission to improve the state of cancer care.
The First Cell Center aims to challenge and replace the current ineffective and costly paradigm. This book is good for: People with a basic understanding of. Azra Raza envisioned the center with the goal of improving early cancer detection and treatment. Her message is as simple as it is paradigm-shifting: rather than trying to kill every last cancer cell, medicine needs to focus on finding the first occurring cancer cells. Book Review: The First Cell: And The Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last by Azra Raza (5/5). Meanwhile, most new cancer drugs, if they work at all, add months to life and are accompanied by severe costs, both financial and physiological.
In her book, she seeks to reimagine society’s conception of cancer as a disease with not just medical consequences, but also. Raza skirts a difficult line between science and hope in her book, The First Cell and the Human Cost of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. She masterfully explains how her research science work intersects with her job treating dying patients on a daily basis: “Nowhere is the science of medicine replaced by the art of caring as in the final days of a terminal illness.” She also explains why using animal models to search for new cancer treatments is unlikely to work, as cancer is so variable and dependent on the specific environment in which it grows. As someone who has seen many patients and her husband die of leukemia, Dr. Raza, a Columbia University professor of medicine and practicing oncologist, offers a passionate account of how humans grapple with the scourge of cancer.
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