Skin

£3.99

Skin

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Author: Paul Raffer

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Language: English

Published by: Xlibris US

Published on: 26 August 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 288 Kb

ISBN: 9781499053371


Introduction

A doctor is diagnosed with an incurable skin cancer. As he faces his mortality, and attempts to avoid it, his life parallels a New York family immediately recognizable as having a common thread with him.

Background

The doctor was adopted and has no known siblings or relatives. The doctor is offered an experimental stem cell transplant protocol and he matches someone from the international stem cell bank.

Journey Through Treatment

The reader is led through the preparation for and the actual stem cell transplantation as seen through the eyes of an experienced physician, with detailed treatments and unexpected side effects.

Experience and Impact

The reader will tour the cutting edge of cancer treatment at one of the world's great institutions, and its effect on two families separated by 3000 miles. Adoption and its psychological legacy color the emotional roller coaster of stem cell treatments.

Story Themes

Its a story of two families, touched by and brought together by cancer.

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