Synopsis
Dr. Robert Newman is a man obsessed--obsessed with the death of his wife from a rare genetic disease--obsessed with finding a cure to save her sister from the same fate. After years of single-minded effort, he has developed a revolutionary gene therapy procedure. Now the most devastating of human diseases can be stopped in their tracks. But within weeks, his discovery has unleashed a deadly cancer epidemic. His life is threatened and everyone he loves becomes his enemy. As he searches frantically for clues, he discovers a long dormant secret hidden within the human genome. Dr. Newman realizes that malignant transformation in human cells is not a random event. The marked increase in malignancies has a more horrific explanation. Silent for millennia, Cancer is now awakening as a rationale entity with an agenda of its own. And unless it can be stopped, no one--least of all Dr. Robert Newman--has long to live.
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Raphael Hirsch was born in Chicago. He was educated at Northwestern University and The University of Illinois Medical School, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute. He has practiced medicine for twenty years and is the author of over seventy articles in medical journals. He is presently Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh where he leads a national gene therapy research program.
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