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為什麼我們已經抵達癌症「終結的起點」!
非文學類(醫療/科學)
更新日期:
2015-10-01
The Death of Cancer
Vincent T. DeVita Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn
Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nov. 2015
336pp
書籍編號:
03-8588
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● 內文簡介

★普利茲獎得主《萬病之王》(The Emperor of All Maladies)作者辛達塔.穆克吉(Siddhartha Mukherjee)盛情推薦

在醫療最前線50年的權威腫瘤學家,揭露為何抗癌的勝利指日可待,我們又該如何抵達不需聞癌色變的時代!

不管以哪一種方式,癌症影響了每個人的生活,這是毋庸置疑的。然而我們對於癌症的病理、現代醫療為何採取目前的療法、哪些人的付出造就醫療進展與現狀,往往一知半解。

文森.德維塔醫師(Dr. Vincent T. DeVita, Jr.)就是癌症醫療發展的其中一位關鍵人物,腫瘤醫學界的重要先驅,在新書《癌症的終結》(The Death of Cancer)中他將透過個人歷史,以身為醫生、研究者、甚至病患的角度,道出他所經歷的這時代最偉大的一項科學故事:與癌症的奮戰。

德維塔醫師現任教耶魯大學醫學院,豐富的資歷幾乎涵蓋腫瘤領域所有要職,包括美國國家癌症研究所所長。他最重大的貢獻是研發出何杰金氏淋巴瘤(Hodgkin’s lymphoma)化療法,這是第一種真正治癒癌症的療法,也是化學治療合併療法(combination chemotherapy)領域最早期的成功之一,被美國臨床腫瘤醫師會譽為化療五十年歷史以來最高研究進展。

《癌症的終結》為德維塔醫師與科普作家女兒Elizabeth DeVita Raeburn合著,以醫師的個人親身經驗為經,耙梳癌症的科學與歷史,探索癌症研究與治療的箇中幽微細節,在描述令人興奮的科學進展的同時,也揭露政府與科學之間緊張的關係。故事包括錯誤的起點、重大的突破、腫瘤學家與管理者的衝突、參與最新實驗研究的勇敢病患等等,複雜的醫學概念在作者筆下變得可親易懂,兼具知識性及人性溫度,其中德維塔醫師亦談及自己的抗癌經驗,使得本書更具真實情感及力量。

本書不只是由個人述說的癌症醫療史,更是一則熱切的呼告。德維塔醫師指出,儘管美國的癌症死亡率持續下降,醫學正往治癒的目標大步邁進,癌症病患的福祉仍因怯懦的醫師、偏誤的政策方針、迂腐的官僚體系、資訊取得管道匱乏等沈痾所阻礙,有諸多改變必須實踐。作者提供令人大開眼界的資訊,分析眾知名癌症機構的優缺,並告訴患者如何善用這些資訊,告訴大家我們已經抵達癌症「終結的起點」!

 

● 作者簡介

Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., is a professor of medicine and epidemiology and public health at Yale School of Medicine. He was the director of the National Cancer Institute and the National Cancer Program from 1980 to 1988. In 1988 he joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as the physician-in-chief. In 1993 he became the director of the Yale Cancer Center. At the NCI, he developed a cure for Hodgkin's lymphoma with combination chemotherapy, proving that advanced cancers could be cured by drugs. He's a former president of the American Cancer Society and the coeditor of Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, a textbook of cancer medicine.

Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn (the author’s daughter) is the author of The Empty Room. She lives in New York City with her husband, the writer Paul Raeburn, and two sons.

 

● 媒體報導

“Superb science writing . . . One of the most absorbing and empowering science histories to hit the shelves in recent years.”——科克斯評論,星級書評

“DeVita blends crisp writing and a gift for explaining complicated scientific concepts clearly with deep knowledge, passion, and wit. The book is by turns entertaining and maddening, but always fascinating.”——圖書館期刊,星級書評

“This riveting, beautifully written, and poignant memoir takes us on an enormous journey--from cancer's past to its future. Vincent T. DeVita Jr. brings us behind the scenes to the invention of breakthrough therapies for some forms of cancer in the 1960s and '70s. He also provides a much-needed manifesto for the future.”—— SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies

“The Death of Cancer is a fascinating insider history of the long battle against one of the world's most feared diseases, told with both insight and frustration, and ultimately with hope. This collaboration between the former National Cancer Institute director Vincent T. DeVita Jr. and his talented science writer daughter, Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, results in a wonderfully human portrait of the scientists who join the fight and a wonderfully smart look at the ways we might actually win it.”——DEBORAH BLUM, New York Times–bestselling author of The Poisoner’s Handbook