A Cure Within: Scientists Unleashing The Immune System To Kill Cancer
This book takes us through a journey of scientific discoveries from biomarkers like CTLA-4, PD1/PDL1 to immune therapies like CAR-T cells to attack and kill ...
Books that I found helpful in understanding cancer, including some of the research and diagnostics.
Cancer, Stress and Mindset
Brilliant book by Brandon LaGreca who takes us through the science behind the neurophysiology of stress: The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems....
Cancer Genetics: The Biology of Cancer
This book talks about the differences between cancer and normal cells. And, specific cancer-related genes like oncogenes and tumor suppressors. The book also...
Emperor of All Maladies: A biography of Cancer
Finished reading this Incredible book: Extremely well written. Tells the story of cancer, it’s possible origins and potential cures! Riveting page turner! Dr...
From One Cell: A Journey Into Life’s Origins and the Future of Medicine
Dr. Stranger explores a fascinating mystery: How does the plethora of different tissues that compose our bodies arise from a single source? And, recognizing ...
Her-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast Cancer
Herceptin works by inactivating Her-2/neu–a protein that makes cancer cells grow especially quickly– produced by a gene found in 25 to 30 percent of all brea...
Making Sense of Cancer
A thought-provoking and challenging scientific philosophical book that describes the evolutionary forces (germ cells and somatic cells) at the heart of cance...
One Renegade Cell: How Cancer Begins
Brilliant overview of the genetic nature of cancer: Oncogenes & Tumor Suppressors. Innovation has accelerated in the 20 years since this book was written...
P53: The Gene That Cracked The Cancer Code
Fascinating book! p53 is dubbed “the guardian of the genome” and TP53 is classified as a tumor-blocker. It is the most commonly mutated gene in human cancer:...
The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy And The Race To Cure Cancer
Just finished my 9th book on cancer: Immunotherapy has significantly accelerated over the past decade unleashing our immune systems to attack cancer. The boo...
Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery
The author argues that cancer discriminates against age, weight & poverty. Randomness/entropy will result in mutations causing cancer. However, he also d...
The Cancer Code
Fascinating learnings: Hayflick limit, Warburg effect, a reversion to single-cell evolutionary growth & the role of hyperinsulinemia. The book ends with ...
The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer
This Fascinating book discusses the evolutionary nature of “The Emperor of All Maladies” that allows it to morph & hide in plain sight! A new way of look...
The End of the Beginning
This book is about the stunning recent success with immune oncology: Basically, using our own immune system to attack and destroy cancer. Brilliantly written...
The First Cell: And The Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
This thought provoking book by Dr. Raza is very personal and scientific at that same time. She argues that the future is in preventing cancer by identifying ...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
This book is about the origins of an immortal cell line called HeLa taken from a 31-year old African-American mother of 5 who died of cervical cancer in 1951...
The Immunotherapy Revolution
Finished my 12th book on cancer: Dr. Williams’ work is centered around the tumor microenvironment as the key to combating cancer. He focuses on intra-tumoral...
The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
Just finished reading a fascinating book: It tells the story of 50 plus years of collaboration between researchers, academics, pharmaceutical giants and clin...
The Rebel Cell
Read my 17th book on cancer: The Rebel Cell by Kat Arney. She shifts away from precision oncology to the Darwinian nature of cancer’s mutations. She advocate...
Song Of The Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Dr. Mukherjee discusses the fundamental unit of life: The cell! The book attempts to cover a vast array of subjects including the inner workings of a cell, c...