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David Cantor: Cancer, 7 March 2013
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Fourth Estate, 571 pp., £9.99, September 2011,978 0 00 725092 9 Show More
by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Fourth Estate, 571 pp., £9.99, September 2011,
“... interventions had been crude. In the late 19th century, the Johns Hopkins surgeon William Stewart Halsted pioneered radical forms of mastectomy, shunning what he called ‘mistaken kindness’ in favour of removing not only the breast but much, much more. The key to successful treatment, he believed, was to remove the tumour while it was still ... ”