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about his criticism of the FDA in the way it regulates research and
how it approves cancer treatments: too timid for his taste, and
often evaluated by reviewers not trained in cancer research, who
are more rewarded for caution than for courage.
He is equally scornful about the many naysayers predicting that
the war against cancer has been lost. He points out the continuing
drop in cancer mortality since 1990; that for every 20 percent drop
in cancer deaths the economy gains $10 trillion. He enthusiastically
explains our new understanding of the hallmarks of cancer. The last
part of the book describes the recent astonishing breakthroughs
targeting gene mutations and activating the immune system to
fight cancer, but DeVita worries that “we get bogged down by
our system” and not advance as fast as we could. Dr. DeVita at
79, himself a survivor of aggressive prostate cancer, expresses his
fighting spirit with so much optimism, so certain of mankind’s
inevitable success in the war against cancer, that reading his book
is as uplifting as it is informative.
Dr. Kloecker is an associate professor at the University of Louisville
School of Medicine Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology.
He is director of the Hematology-Medical Oncology Fellowship
Program.
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