Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease

A "compelling—and wonderfully told" biography of the American physician who pioneered a treatment for a cancer of lymph tissue (Wall Street Journal).In the 1950s, ninety-five percent of patients with Hodgkin''s disease, a cancer of lymph tissue which afflicts young adults, died. Today most are cured, due mainly to the efforts of Dr. Henry Kaplan. Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin''s Disease ex...