![]() ![]() He cowrote a second book, Understanding Cancer, that became a bestselling university text, and he continued to lecture throughout the United States on cancer research, education, and prevention. 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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