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Death Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Alder Bolton and I'm really honored to be here today with our

guest, Nefiz Hassan. Nefis is an author and organizer. He has his PhD in cell molecular

in developmental biology. His postdoctoral research at Tufts focused on developing 3D models to

study brain tumors, and his

graduate research was in breast cancer. He is currently an associate faculty at the Brooklyn

Institute for Social Research and serves as an editor for the Radical Science Magazine, Science for

the People, and South Asian Left Media Platform, Gemhor. I've asked Nefis on the show today to discuss

his recent book called

Metastasis, The Rise of the Cancer Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care, which was published by Common Notions Press in February 2025. Nafis, welcome to the death panel. It's so great to have you on the show. Hi. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here. I'm really just so glad to have you here with us today. Your book,

Metastasis, again, Metastasis, The Rise of the Cancer Industrial Complex and the Horizon of

Care is really a fantastic book. It's a remarkable and very urgent contribution to how we

understand not just cancer, but also the political economy of health under capitalism.

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