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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262357814
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 17 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12375.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262357814
A leading cancer specialist tells the compelling stories of three adult leukemia patients and their treatments, the disease itself, and the drugs developed to treat it. When you are told that you have leukemia, your world stops. Your brain can't function. You are asked to make decisions about treatment almost immediately, when you are not in your right mind. And yet you pull yourself together and start asking questions. Beside you is your doctor, whose job it is to solve the awful puzzle of bone marrow gone wrong. The two of you are in it together. In When Blood Breaks Down, Mikkael Sekeres, a leading cancer specialist, takes readers on the journey that patient and doctor travel together. Sekeres, who writes regularly for the Well section of the New York Times , tells the compelling stories of three people who receive diagnoses of adult leukemia within hours of each other: Joan, a 48-year-old surgical nurse, a caregiver who becomes a patient; David, a 68-year-old former factory worker who bows to his family's wishes and pursues the most aggressive treatment; and Sarah, a 36-year-old pregnant woman who must decide whether to undergo chemotherapy and put her fetus at risk. We join the intimacy of the conversations Sekeres has with his patients, and watch as he teaches trainees. Along the way, Sekeres also explores leukemia in its different forms and the development of drugs to treat it—describing, among many other fascinating details, the invention of the bone marrow transplant (first performed experimentally on beagles) and a treatment that targets the genetics of leukemia. The lessons to be learned from leukemia, Sekeres shows, are not merely medical; they teach us about courage and grace and defying the odds.