Patients but no Patience

Having had the good fortune to help create the important and fascinating field of neuro-oncology, this memoir describes who I am, why I am so driven, how my family helped and encouraged me, how my contributions became a driving force in the field and how my obsession with finding new drugs to treat primary infiltrative CNS tumors led to exploring different avenues for the discovery and development of novel anticancer agents in the field. This memoir is the story of my neuro-oncology journey and the path I continue fifty years after starting on it at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1967.