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truly emerges, as a nineteenth-century surgeon once wrote in a book’s frontispiece, as “the emperor of all maladies, the king of terrors.” A disclaimer: in science and medicine, where the primacy of a discovery carries supreme weight, the mantle of inventor or discoverer is assigned by a community of scientists and researchers.
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The Emperor of All Maladies is 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.
Jan 4, 2011 · The landmark discoveries of oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and mutations in signaling and survival pathways are relayed with the flair of a mystery novelist, Mukherjee skillfully revealing the personalities of the patients, the malignant cells, and the scientists involved.
Siddhartha Mukherjee. The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biog-raphy” 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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Aug 9, 2011 · 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”...
The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer. Stanley Riddell. J Clin Invest. 2011;121(1):5-5. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI45710. Book Review. Through the centuries, cancer has struck terror in patients and challenged and perplexed the philosophers, physicians, and scientists who have sought to understand and treat it.
