Outliving Cancer

Dr. Robert Nagourney felt like he had made a terrible mistake. Many years ago, as an oncology fellow, his lifelong desire to be a healer and a physician had been replaced by his role as an administrator of toxic, ineffective chemotherapies. His patients weren't only dying; he was poisoning them. He resolved that the remainder of his career would be dedicated to finding better, innovative ways to treat cancer.  By rethinking what cancer is and how it behaves, Dr. Nagourney has developed a smarter, more effective way to treat cancer patients. In OUTLIVING CANCER, Dr. Nagourney describes the scientific rationale for his particular approach to cancer medicine - beginning with an interest in cancer as a disease and his good fortune to work with many accomplished doctors, to the obstacles he encountered along the way. He, also, expands upon the profound impact the concept of programmed cell death has had upon his worldview. In this book, readers will come to understand that cancer is not what it once appeared to be, that its management has often been ill conceived and ill applied. And finally, the reader will see that simple insights have enabled Dr. Nagourney to demonstrably improve his patients' outcomes. By taking a fresh look at some of medicine's most sacrosanct dictates, he has found better, faster, smarter ways to solve even the most complex problems.