Věřil jsem, že to musí jít lepší cestou - S profesorem Janem Starým o převratech v dětské onkologii – Dvořáková Petra (2024)

How to cross the boundaries of the impossible? And why are we world leaders in treating childhood leukemia? A book-length interview by writer Petra Dvořáková with Professor Jan Starý turns to the most important moments of his life — from studying medicine to fateful encounters and key decisions that led to significant breakthroughs in the treatment of childhood leukemia in our country. The author maps out the individual steps of Jan Starý, which came together in the mid-1980s in the first treatment successes, where leukemia was overcome by as many as sixty percent of children. She pauses at the fascinating story of the first bone marrow transplant in a child, which Professor Starý performed on the day of the general strike in 1989. Through the prism of her own experience with a child's oncological illness, the author looks into the present, where the success rate of treating children with leukemia is nearly ninety percent, and thanks to the work of Jan Starý and his colleagues, we have become world leaders in the field. The narrative of this doctor's life story is infused with his humanity, kindness, and deep empathy for every person.