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Title: Explora Books Brings New Life to The Genome of Faith as Dr. Ulysses Lagrimas Labilles Steps Onto the Global Stage at Frankfurter Buchmesse

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 27th Nov 2025 - At its center is Dr. Labilles—an epidemiologist trained to decode patterns, probabilities, and the logic of disease. Before his diagnosis, his life was shaped by fieldwork, the mathematics of public health, and serving communities like the Navajo Nation as part of the CDC Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Corps. His distinguished career as a cancer researcher and public health advocate was upended by a devastating diagnosis: stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases.In the memoir, Dr. Labilles walks readers through the disorientation of becoming a patient after years of studying them. He describes the aftermath of two craniotomies, the abrupt halt of chemotherapy when his body resisted, and the surprising clarity that arrived with genomic sequencing. A rare MET exon 14 skipping mutation changed his treatment path, introducing readers to the frontier of precision oncology, where survival is shaped by the unique genetics of a single tumor, not broad protocols.But The Genome of Faith is far more than a medical journey. What startled Dr. Labilles most wasn't cancer’s ferocity—it was the discovery that faith, which he once held at arm’s length, had been waiting. He calls this Grace: an unearned favor that steadied him when statistics could not. His reflections move gently between the pews of St. Patrick Parish Church and the clinical halls where he wrestled with prognosis and possibility. Science answered the “how,” but Grace began to answer the “why.”Layered into the narrative are the people he carries with him—his parents, whom he calls his “core”; his four children, to whom he pens a final, aching letter; and the ancestry behind the names Labilles and Lágrimas, both markers of the history that formed hi...

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