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The C Word: Writing about Cancer Using Scholarship & Empathy, Dr. Azra Raza

Presented by The Creative Nonfiction Foundation at The Ace Hotel, Pittsburgh PA

Mar 12 2020
The C Word: Writing about Cancer Using Scholarship & Empathy, Dr. Azra Raza

Science As Story Lecture Series from Creative Nonfiction Foundation

Dr. Azra Raza has dedicated her life to studying cancer, and to making the unbearable easier to bear. In The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last, Raza gives a searing account of the current state of cancer and its impacts on real people, including herself. She describes how she bore the terrible burden of being her own husband's oncologist as he succumbed to leukemia, and how this personal experience shaped her approach to research. With a mixture of scholarship and ... view more »

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The Ace Hotel

120 S Whitfield St, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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