Cells Are the New Cure: The Cutting-Edge Medical Breakthroughs That Are Transforming Our Health

304 Pages·2017·8.12 MB·English

by  Robin L. Smith, Max Gómez

PRAISE FOR
CELLS ARE THE NEW CURE
“Cells Are the New Cure explains the world of cutting-edge complex scientific
discovery in easy-to-understand language, interweaving the human element
through stories of remission and cure. As someone who is blessed to be thriving
since my stem cell transplant, this book gives us hope.”
—ROBIN ROBERTS, GOOD MORNING AMERICA
“Cells Are the New Cure details the recent discoveries of the world’s top
scientists and clinicians in the rapidly advancing field of cellular medicine. This
paradigm shift in medicine will change the way we treat disease in the very near
future and advances in immunotherapy will revolutionize how we approach
cancer.”
—SEAN PARKER, PRESIDENT, PARKER FOUNDATION
“Robin Smith and Max Gomez have illuminated one of the great frontiers in
medicine for the general reader: The way aberrant cellular biology leads to
disease and how cellular therapy can be harnessed to treat it. Cells Are the New
Cure describes the many novel treatments and therapies under development and
in use in the clinic and catalogues the potential of cellular therapy to alleviate
untold pain and suffering across many lethal diseases like cancer and age-related
degenerative conditions. They describe these historic scientific advances while
compassionately relaying the real-life experiences of patients who have
benefited from them.”
—RONALD A. DEPINHO, MD, FORMER PRESIDENT, UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
“Cells Are the New Cure explores the potential in modern medicine to harness
the human body’s own curative abilities to battle cancer, autoimmune diseases,
and many rare diseases. Set against the backdrop of real-life stories of patients
who have benefited from these therapies while they are undergoing clinical
development, the book highlights that unique moment where science and life
intersect.”
—STEPHEN C. GROFT, PHARMD., SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL
CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES, AND FORMER DIRECTOR,
OFFICE OF RARE DISEASES RESEARCH, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
“Cells Are the New Cure writes a prescription for hope, long missing from the
medical care of patients like me. I have known too many dangerous conditions in
my adult life. Now, science is stepping in with cutting-edge research and clinical
trials that offer a bright future for those of us who have been denied a view of
life beyond today.”
—RICHARD M. COHEN, JOURNALIST AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR WHO HAS BATTLED
ILLNESSES FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Smith, Robin L., 1964-author. | Gomez, Max, author.
Title: Cells are the new cure : the cutting-edge medical breakthroughs that are transforming our health /
Robin L. Smith and Max Gomez.
Description: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017013255 (print) | LCCN 2017014644 (ebook) | ISBN 9781944648848 (electronic) |
ISBN 9781944648800 (trade cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: | MESH: Cell-and Tissue-Based Therapy |
Immunotherapy | DNA Repair | Popular Works Classification: LCC RM370 (ebook) | LCC RM370 (print)
| NLM WO 75 | DDC 615.3/7—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017013255
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