It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee, quote from The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Cancer is an expansionist disease it invades through tissues, sets up colonies in hostile landscapes, seeking sanctuary in one organ and then immigrating to another. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out 'war against cancer.' The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with-and perished from-for more than five thousand years. Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee ' s new book Song of the Cell! Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. The Emperor of All Maladies - Part One Summary by Sydney Wyatt FebruThe book begins with the story of Carla Reed, a 31-year-old kindergarten teacher and mother of three who experiences headaches, strange bruising, white gums, and exhaustion. The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer By Siddhartha Mukherjee eBook Trade Paperback Hardcover Unabridged Audio Download eBook LIST PRICE 16. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is 'an extraordinary achievement' ( The New Yorker )-a magnificent, profoundly humane 'biography' of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.

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