Charles Graeber – författare

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND JESSICA CHASTAIN'A stunning book... should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood' New York TimesAfter his arrest in 2003, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed 'The Angel of Death' by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favourite son, husband, beloved father, best friend and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals.Chronicling Cullen's deadly career and the breathless efforts to stop him, The Good Nurse paints an incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers an urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship and betrayal.

New York Times bestselling author Charles Graeber tells the astonishing story of the group of scientists working on a code that can enable the human immune system to fight — and perhaps even cure — cancer.For decades, scientists have puzzled over one of medicine’s greatest mysteries: why doesn’t our immune system fight cancer the way it does other diseases? The answer is a series of tricks that cancer has developed to turn off normal immune responses — tricks that scientists have only recently discovered, and now are learning to defeat. We are in the midst of a revolution in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it. Groundbreaking, riveting, and expertly told, The Breakthrough is the story of the game-changing and Nobel Prize-winning scientific discoveries that unleash our natural ability to recognise and defeat cancer, as told through the experiences of the patients, physicians, and immunotherapy researchers who are on the front lines. This is the incredible true story of the race to find a cure, and the definitive account of a historic moment in medical science.

¿Por qué nuestro sistema inmunitario no reconoce y combate el cáncer como lo hace con otras enfermedades, como el resfriado? La respuesta a este misterio médico de décadas de antigüedad tiene que ver con los «trucos» que utiliza el cáncer para cortocircuitar las defensas naturales del organismo, trucos que los científicos han descubierto recientemente y que ahora están aprendiendo a combatir. Estamos en medio de una revolución en cuanto a nuestra comprensión del cáncer y cómo vencerlo finalmente. Innovadora, fascinante y contada por expertos, La inmunoterapia y la carrera para curar el cáncer es la historia de los descubrimientos científicos, ganadores del Premio Nobel, que cambian el mundo y liberan nuestra capacidad natural de reconocer y combatir el cáncer, contada a través de las experiencias de pacientes, médicos e investigadores de inmunoterapia de primera línea. Ésta es la increíble historia de la carrera por encontrar una cura, y el relato definitivo de un «momento penicilina» histórico en la ciencia médica.