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By Michael Gearin-Tosh. 334 pp. New York, Scribner, 2002. $25. ISBN 0-7432-2517-1.

This book is an autobiographical account by a classicist and fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, who received a diagnosis of multiple myeloma. He refused conventional medical treatment yet has survived for more than eight years. His case was reviewed by leading oncologists and physicians in Britain and the United States, and it was confirmed that he had stage 1 multiple myeloma. Stage 1 multiple myeloma occupies a borderland between the relatively benign form of the disease, so-called smoldering myeloma, and the aggressive classic form of the disease. It is not uncommon for an oncologist with a practice in myeloma . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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