. residency had been physically and emotionally grueling,but the first months of the fellowship flicked away those memories as if all of that had beenchild’s play, the kindergarten of medical training.Cancer. treatment of disseminated cancer. . . . It wasusually a matter of watching the tumor get bigger, and the patient, progressivelysmaller.—John Laszlo, The Cure of Childhood Leukemia: Into theAge of. ima-gined itself as eternally young, with an accompanying guarantee of eternal health—the in-vincible society.But of all diseases, cancer had refused to fall into step in this march of progress. If...