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It's hard to shape slippery, sophisticated medical issues into a page-turner, but Karen Stabiner does this in a book that ushers us through the realm of women, doctors, and researchers uncomfortably banded together to fight breast cancer. At its hub is the personable, controversial breast surgeon Dr. Susan Love (
Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book). She unmercifully twits others in the field, proclaiming mammography's limits and labeling the current, clumsy approaches to "curing" cancer "slash, burn, and poison." Other spokes on the wheel are well-sketched patients and researchers chasing genetic culprits and better treatments. Dead-ends and triumphs are chronicled in a chilling, sometimes overly dramatized account reminiscent of
And the Band Played On.
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The new war on breast cancer, Stabiner holds, arose from the work of UCLA surgeon Susan Love, an upwelling of thousands of women's support for more research, and a U.S. Army^-administered program. Stabiner practically lived with Love and her patients for nine months, and she describes the persistence and growing political savvy that fueled Love and her battalions as well as how Love's lack of tact and steady eye on the main chance alienated some. Stabiner uses the stories of seven patients as the framework of her book. Five were at first misdiagnosed; two had more cancer than was originally thought. Stabiner skillfully weaves their medical histories together, which allows direct and indirect comparisons of the seven as human beings and of their various treatments. Stabiner also presents, very well, several of Love's colleagues--Bernard Fisher, Mary-Claire King, and David Heber prominently among them--and Love's relations with them to fill out this fascinating account of the forceful Love, her patients, and her not-always-happy supporting cast.
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