Royal Society Book Prize

ONE IN THREE is on the shortlist of the Royal Society Book Prize.

Its great.

I especially like it because the Royal Society has such a heritage. Newton was its president, after all.

There is an article about it here.

And a comment piece here

Comments

[John Gaffney]

Adam:

Every award you get is well-deserved. I'm an APML survivor, currently reassembling my life after 28 months of intensive chemo. You captured the glory and hopelessness of cancer treatment. And you made the point that there is no one thing that we can do to stop it, so we better do everything we can. Nicely done.

[Adam Wishart]

John, thanks so much for your kind words. During the writing of the book, I was always conscious that patients might read it at some point in the future. And it always worried me that the particular experience of my Dad, and my research into the history of cancer medicine, would somehow fail to strike the chord with any of the great diversity of cancer patients. Perhaps all patients are so different, I feared, and the information they require is so varied, that a book like mine wouldn't be any good.

So it is a relief that you, and patients with a wide variety of different sorts of cancers, (breast, testicular, various leukemia's among them) have described the benefit they've found from the book. Its difficult to describe how overwhelming and pleasing that relief is.

I'm grateful for you comments thanks.
Adam Wishart