A Test of Survival

A simple lab test that could customize chemotherapy to the patient and save lives. Surely such a breakthrough would be hustled into widespread use? Not in <I>A Test of Survival</I> and not in the real-life story that inspired it. </P><P>Money is certainly at stake as is status power loyalty to petrified ideas and the fate of half a million people dying of cancer every year.</P><P>Dr. Gus Ephraim toils for decades at the fringes of cancer research stubbornly awaiting validation of his tumor test. He risks his marriage and more when he sets up a new lab in the Midwest too close to wife number one and to Dr. Lyman Deering renowned leader in the cancer establishment. </P><P>As damage to his reputation his livelihood and his family piles up . Gus stops playing by the rules. Reluctantly and prodded by an unlikely band of allies he takes on the powers-that-be and their cash-register vision of cancer treatment in America.</P><P>Visit www.marniesfiction.com </P><P><B>Ten percent of the royalties from this book will be donated to Gilda's Club a network of meeting places for the support of cancer patients their families and friends.</B></P>