The Malignant Empire

An excerpt from my documentary proposal about an "Uncensored History of Money, Power and Politics in the Cancer Industry"

One thing all freelance authors and journalists have in common is that we usually have several projects underway at the same time. One might turn into the next book, another ends up as a documentary, and the rest become articles or opinion pieces and sometimes go nowhere.

Projects come up sometimes unexpectedly.

A year after my last book, Pharma: Greed, Lies and the Poisoning of America, my wife, Trisha, was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was with her when the physician did a biopsy and ultrasound that confirmed the dark spot on her annual mammogram was a malignant tumor. That day, Trisha became one of the more than 1.8 million Americans who will get an annual cancer diagnosis; four in ten will hear that during their life.

Cancer has a way of instantly jumping ahead of everything on life’s to-do list.

Trisha and I are partners for over 40 years. We work together on all our book projects. Friends and colleagues know we do pretty much everything as a team. All we wanted was to do wh…