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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,
“... Siddhartha Mukherjee is an oncologist, physician and laboratory scientist whose book captures the excitement of biomedical research and discovery, the wonder at the complexities of cancer and the bodies it inhabits, and the thrill of major advances in knowledge and practice. Mukherjee seldom dismisses older methods of treatment or those who promoted them, but his book is mostly about what they lacked and what future therapies promise ... ”