Free eBooks The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money And False Promises--and The Fate Of ImClone's Cancer Drug Available To Downloads

                
              
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The Cell Game: Sam Waksal's Fast Money And False Promises--and The Fate Of ImClone's Cancer Drug Available To Downloads
Before ImClone became the stuff of the weekly newsmagazines, it was the name of a promising biotech company headed by a charming scientist named Sam Waksal, who claimed he had a "breakthrough" drug for cancer..
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: HarperBusiness; 1st Printing edition edition (January 20, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060555564
ISBN-13: 978-0060555566
Product Dimensions:  6 x 1.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
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This is about the Cancer Game, which might be seen as a part of the Cancer Industry, a kind of bizarre and ghoulish phenomenon of modern times that exists precisely because there is no cure for cancer. Indeed, Alex Prud'homme, who is a gifted researcher and prose stylist, whose work has appeared in such prestigious journals as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, etc., might very well have called his book "The Cancer Game." I wonder why he didn't. Would such a title have offended those who play the game?It is specifically about the rise and fall of one Sam Waksal, oldest son of Jewish emigrants and Holocaust survivors, a man of irresistible charm, fabulous energy, and great intelligence, a man driven to success and the high life, a man who had bounced around academia without much success until in the 1980s he saw an opportunity to become a player in the cancer game, and, along with his younger brother Harlan, founded ImClone Systems, Inc.It is also about an anticancer drug called Erbitux, originally known as C225 because it was the 225th drug tested by its discoverers, John Mendelsohn and Gordon Sato in 1980. It showed promise because in tests it stopped the growth of tumors in mice.And finally it is a story about how drugs get discovered, how they are developed, and especially how they get approved (or not) by the Food and Drug Administration. And of course it is about the Byzantine and incestuous relationship that exists between that August government agency and the massive pharmaceutical industry.The curious thing about all this is that Imclone never turned a profit, Erbitux never came to market, and most of the people associated with Waksal and ImClone either made out like bandits or got stuck holding the bag.
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