The Cancer Letter’s summer reading list is here and it’s full of titles to help you drive professional growth, reflect on a divided nation—and even explore a little “neural nostalgia” with Beyoncé.
I accumulated some books I found interesting over the last several months, knowing I would eventually take time off on vacation and have a chance to delve into them more than my schedule normally allows.
Cancer does not discriminate. It can affect poor and rich, old and young, ordinary people and celebrities, and people from all walks of life. The diagnosis of cancer is almost always unexpected, sudden, and shocking, independent of social status, education, or profession.
Every August since 2020, The Cancer Letter has asked a diverse panel of clinicians, basic scientists, early-career faculty, patient advocates, government officials, and regulators to tell us what they are reading.
I had fun reading and sharing some book reviews with The Cancer Letter previously, and I thought I would try again with a new installment (The Cancer Letter, Aug. 6, 2021).
E. Donnall Thomas, the Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of bone marrow transplantation, liked to make the point that his life spanned the period of time from when physicians like his own father still made house calls in a horse and buggy, to when T-cells were genetically engineered to be used therapeutically.
Is 2022 the year of thrillers? Statistics? Thrillers about statistics?
One would get little quarrel with the hypothesis that the development of “targeted therapy” is one of the most substantial advances in cancer care and cancer research over the past 50 years.
Are Ibram X. Kendi, Charles Dickens, and Nobel Laureate Paul Nurse on your bookshelf, too?
Over the past year, I noticed several books written by giants in our field, people everyone knows, people I am honored to know personally. I was interested in what they wrote, and I thought their books would be of general interest to The Cancer Letter community.
