"What is it like to encounter cancer? How does it feel to face its unknowns? To enter a world of hope, loss, and dread? Dr. David Scadden knows this world well. He has experienced it as a young boy, as a son, and as a professor, founder of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and one of the world's leading experts on blood diseases and cancer. In Cancerland he chronicles a life spent trying to understand it too -- from the classmate who left school and never came back, to how he learned to say "enough" when caring for the ill, to his inspired optimism as scientific discoveries became revolutionary medicine. Dr. Scadden leads you through the rapidly changing landscape of care and cure. This journey may often end in grief, but he shows that triumph can also be found. And by exploring the science of cancer, the promising new therapies and remarkable drugs, Dr. Scadden humanizes it, reveals that progress toward a cure is real, if fitful, and assures those with cancer that they never walk alone."-- Provided by publisher.

Title from container. "HD." "LIGHT." Previously released by Macmillan Audio, Â2018. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.