Unlock Your True Potential: The Power of Mind Over Matter

docgiman: Makes science read like a detective story.

United States on Oct 16, 2023

Rick Brown: I wanted to read about the drugs I am taking for breast cancer. This was perfect. It is extremely well written. He takes complex material and methodically walks the reader through the history of breast cancer research and the new targeted drugs in a very readable and enjoyable way. Highly recommend for anyone in breast cancer treatment.

United States on Jul 11, 2023

Paul S. Bodine: The highest compliment one can pay to a book about cancer is that it’s able to explain complex science in the same comprehensible, thrilling, humanistic way as Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Emperor of the Maladies. Graeber more than merits that praise in his immensely readable history of an important theatre of the war on cancer that Mukherjee omitted.

United States on Dec 08, 2021

Amardeep.g: Great author . The way he presents everything is very good . A good book for anyone from a common man to a medical graduate searching for new treatment options for cancers.

India on May 23, 2021

Medrunner: I really enjoyed this book, especially the first few chapters. Very good history on a class of medications that have changed cancer therapy.

Canada on Nov 15, 2020

Ram Murali: Some of the best parts of this book are in the chapter, “Glimmers in the Darkness.” In this chapter, Graeber lays the building blocks of the immune system and how the deep understanding of the system came about piecemeal over time, not in one eureka moment. More importantly, this chapter enlightens us on how researchers had to deal with skeptics. A telling example is from a time when a researcher first presented information on the immune system comprising T cells in addition to B cells. He was mocked in public with the comment that “B” and “T” were the first and last letters of the word, “bulls—t.” It is a very revealing moment that shows us that the barriers to advancements aren’t always financial, logistical or scientific.

The aforementioned chapter also details, with much incision and perspicacity, the need to disseminate information responsibly. As much as there is a need to lucidly share important advances beyond the scientific community with the general public, of equal importance is balanced representation. Nowhere is this more evident in the book than the section on Dr. Steve Rosenberg and the IL-2 news coverage in 1985. A week before results...

United States on Jun 09, 2020

Philip M: My wife has medullar thyroid cancer and our son has MS. The Breakthrough is an essential read for anyone suffering from cancer or any autoimmune disease such as MS. It offers hope by explaining the remarkable recent progress of research into immunotherapy achieved by thousands of dedicated scientists and physicians around the world.

Graeber tackles this complex subject with incredible clarity, from the earliest years of work by tenacious physicians in the face of fierce criticism from colleagues, to the modern discoveries of B-Cells, T-Cells and their receptors and checkpoint inhibitors. And he patiently reminds the reader when revisiting a particular topic, to help reinforce how the immune system works when fighting cancerous cells.

But this is not just a very well researched book of science. It combines the true story of the amazing work by so many scientists and doctors with real experiences of cancer patients. Some of the stories are truly uplifting and inspiring. A few are desperately sad. His extraordinarily sensitive narrative had me in tears several times.

The Breakthrough is a page-turning story of scientific discovery, throughout which he cleverly...

United Kingdom on Aug 09, 2019

David L. Wroughton: SPOILER ALERT ON CONTENTS OF CHAPTER ONE

I’m just going to post what I posted to my chronic myelomonocytic leukemia support group (minus the name of the poster to whom I was responding).

................ thanks for posting this link. I watched it (a video interview of the author) and was so impressed, that I got this speaker’s book on Amazon.
I broke down in tears as I read chapter one. When my sister was ill with renal cell carcinoma, I always told her to “Hang on, the cure may be right around the corner.” I was wrong. She died in 2008 at age 46. I wasn’t wrong by much though.
That was just 3 years before the subject of chapter one, Jeff Schwartz, who had the same type of cancer as my sister, was the first person who responded to the new breakthrough treatment in an experimental trial of a new immunotherapy drug. (Sorry for the spoiler).
I am sad that it was not soon enough for my sister Janet. I am also sad that I may not find my cure. I am very sad that my mother has had to bury two children, (I am her last), as well as her husband (my father), and her brother, all due to cancer. I pray that she does not have to bury me.
This book gives me...

United States on May 13, 2019

Jonathan Jaime Camarena Castañeda: Buen artículo

Mexico on Mar 25, 2019

Kindle Customer: More a nice story than a scientific book. History is told only in part, and the book is too much a romance.

Italy on Feb 18, 2019