![]() ![]() He waged a war against cancer, soon realizing that treating and preventing cancer would need more than scientists and physicians to come together at a large scale. He made sure they had a colorful and cheery atmosphere in the hospital. While he lost many of his patients to disease and unsuccessful drug trials, he was also the first to change how his patients, most of them children, experienced the disease externally. Farber made important leaps in the field: he was the first person to recognize that cancer could be treated or minimized with a chemical drug. ![]() Barring the author’s fascination with imbuing cancer with a human personality (not entirely misguided, cancer cells are motivated by the same force as us - to reproduce themselves and live forever), two human characters stood out to me. ![]()
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