NEW YORK, October 21, 2019 — Why has so little progress been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer? How can physicians, caregivers, and patients advocate for more effective research and humane treatments? Dr. Azra Raza, the director of the MDS Center at Columbia University, tackles some of these important questions in The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. She appeared in conversation with Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Empire of All Maladies and The Cell. (1 hr., 4 min.)