![]() By the time he entered medical school, he had created, with another student, a series of college courses on cancer and coauthored The Biology of Cancer Sourcebook, the text for a course that was eventually offered to tens of thousands of students. His interest was not in fact in oncology-in finding a cure-but in cancer education and prevention. But Mark kept on with his cancer studies. As it turned out, his father didn’t have cancer. After his father developed a tumor, Mark, who was pre-med, started studying cancer with an intensity that convinced many of his friends that his goal was to find a cure in time to save his father. He had been a bit of a prodigy when we were in college. I followed him around at work, sitting in while he examined patients. I interviewed him about his childhood-his father was a psychiarist in Beverly Hills. I stopped being mortified that people might mistake me for one of his acolytes. ![]() ![]() “Things changed after that between me and Mark. ![]()
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