About the Author

Kamalendu Malaker has spent the last fifty years working with leading experts in the field of oncology. He trained to become a physician at the University of Calcutta in India and earned his doctorate in cell biology from the University of London. Having trained in oncology in Oxford and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School of London University and received his oncology degree from the Royal College, Malaker became the senior registrar and clinical tutor in radiation oncology at the University of London.

Malaker also served as a research officer at the Dana Farber Cancer Center at Harvard University. Additionally, he published the first cancer journal of India in 1962, is credited with helping establish oncology as a clinical discipline, and has since written hundreds of scientific articles. Malaker is currently a professor of oncology and internal medicine at Ross University and head of oncology at Dominica Princess Margaret Hospital.

Malaker and his wife, Baljit, live in Winnipeg, Canada. They have one grown daughter and a granddaughter.