Melanoma without a Cause: How the New Miracle Immunotherapy Drugs and My Own Immune System Helped Me Fight Stage Four Cancer Paperback / softback - 2017

In 2000, Nova Science Publishers (Kroshka Imprint) published Bryant Wieneke's first non-fiction book, Winning Without the Spin", an insider's account of a visionary religious studies professor's unlikely run for Congress. His second full-length work was his comical and insightful Peace Corps journal from West Africa, now independently published as "A Dry and Thirsty Land". The author's most recent release, "Melanoma without a Cause: How the New Miracle Immunotherapy Drugs and My Own Immune System Helped Me Fight Stage Four Cancer" is a personal account of survival following a diagnosis of metastatic melanoma. Fighting through debilitating side effects, the author's life is saved by a treatment not available even a few years earlier. The heroes in the story are the author's wife, Elvira, who stands with him every step of the way, and the immunotherapy drugs that work with his immune system to target and destroy cancer cells. "Melanoma without a Cause" chronicles the author's remarkable turn-around, but remission remains elusive. A blog has been initiated to tell the continuing story. Mr. Wieneke's current project is an original personal biography series that allows readers of all ages to join historical figures on their remarkable journeys. The first book in the series, "It's All Relative: Albert Einstein's Strange Trip through Space and Time", is told from the perspective of a young Albert Einstein as he struggles to put together the pieces of an abstract puzzle. Similarly, in the second book in the series, "Evolution of an Idea: Charles Darwin's Exquisite Journey", the reader joins Darwin on his voyage around the world and sees how his study of plant and animal life leads to the inescapable conclusion that species evolve through natural selection. While telling a great story, each book in the series explores the nature of genius itself, whether stimulated by a flash of insight or developed over years of trial and error. Mr. Wieneke's fiction includes a set of novels that follow an enterprising American through harrowing action from Santa Barbara to Timbuktu as he tries to find an alternative to deadly force as a means to deter terrorism. A former university administrator, Mr. Wieneke retired in 2013 to devote himself to writing.