Cancer Ward Story by the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Cancer Ward," about the life of patients and doctors in the Oncology Center in Tashkent in 1954. The protagonist of the story is the prototype Oleg Kostoglotov Solzhenitsyn himself. Story, in a sense autobiographical. Story is quite dark and depressing, describes the conflict between the patients themselves, conflicts of patients with physicians. But in that darkness was a place of love and a happy ending. And Solzhenitsyn after the disease has lived a very long time.