Book Launch with Appalachian Science Writer Kristina Marusic
Tue, May 09
|Pittsburgh
AppSciComm is thrilled to co-host a book launch party for Kristina Marusic in celebration of her nonfiction book, A New War on Cancer! Kristina will be in conversation with Dani Wilson, Executive Director of the Cancer and Environment Network of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Time & Location
May 09, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Pittsburgh, 4754 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA
About the Event
Register here to join us in-person or via the livestream: White Whale Bookstore | Events 20230509
For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer. We’re better than ever at treating the disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the U.S. The astonishing news is that up to two-third of all cancer cases are linked to preventable environmental causes. If we can stop cancer before it begins, why don’t we? That was the question that motivated Kristina Marusic’s revelatory inquiry into cancer prevention, detailed in her book, A New War on Cancer.
AppSciComm members are invited to an in-person reading, book signing and discussion between the author and the director of the Cancer & Environment Network of Southwest Pennsylvania at White Whale Bookstore, an independent, family-owned bookstore in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood.…