The Cancer Code: How a Journey Through Leukemia Led to Software That Changed the Way People Work

Jetter, Mike

ISBN 10: 0974559806 / ISBN 13: 9780974559803

Published by self-published, 2003

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8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cancer Code: How a Journey Through Leukemia Led to Software That Changed the Way People Work
• Publisher: self-published
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0974559806
• ISBN 13: 9780974559803
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Edition Not Stated
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Health and Medicine
  • Science

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Synopsis

When all attempts to cure his life-threatening illness fail, a young computer programmer decides to leave behind a legacy; software that, by reflecting the way the human minds works, brings tremendous gains in creativity and productivity. Working from an isolation room of a German cancer ward, the man writes his digital epitaph then survives. Undaunted by his continued health problems, he and his wife turn the program into a multi-million-dollar business. But more important, they transform their lives as the battle against chronic myeloid leukemia takes them down a path they would have otherwise never dared travel.

About the Author

"I was a thirty-year-old software programmer who could slip into the acute phase of leukemia at any moment and be dead in six months. If I was going to create a legacy, I’d have to do it by sticking to what I knew best."

Michael Jetter