STAYING ALIVE – An Oncologist Fights His Cancer

 The renowned oncologist and researcher Wolfram Gössling was in his mid-forties when he was diagnosed with an extremely rare and dangerous form of cancer. The disease he had spent a lifetime treating was now shaping his own life.
In this book he writes about the traumatic treatment process and his miraculous recovery; about his work as a doctor and his experience as a patient, husband and father of four children. He does not shy away from talking about his fear, grief and rage, and how these experiences have affected the way he treats his own patients. He knows now what his patients are going through, and what chemotherapy feels like, and he is not afraid to share his experiences with them. He explains how his illness led him to take the work he was doing in his research group in a new direction, and changed the way he trains his medical students.
Above all, however, Gössling’s book is a plea for hope. Because he knows: people suffering from cancer need positive stories. In spite of everything.