The book. “The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level”, written by Jessica Wapner, is published in the Spring of 2013 by an independent publisher, The Experiment. Ms. Wapner is a freelance science writer focusing on topics of healthcare and medicine. This is her first book.
The book tells the story of the discovery, events, and the journey leading to the treatment of a once-deadly leukemia, Chronic Myelogenous (or Myeloid) Leukemia (CML).