TV producer Kurt Langbein is renowned as one of the most famous medical journalists globally; with his book "Bittere Pillen" hitting the bestseller lists. As a journalist ("Profil", ORF) he reports in periodicals, books and TV documentations on cancer patients' lives of suffering alongside the scientific attempts to cure the disease. His constant emersion with the topic on a daily basis in professional contexts meant that his own cancer diagnosis came as an even deeper shock. In his recent book "Radieschen von oben" he looks back on numerous personal encounters with scientists and therapists and presents state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of cancer research.