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- 3. Finding the Achilles Heel Apr 1, 2015
- The first targeted therapies are developed; a focus on prevention and early detection takes shape.
- 2. The Blind Men and the Elephant Mar 31, 2015
- The genetic basis of cancer is discovered; advances in research lead to more precise therapies.
- 1. Magic Bullets Mar 30, 2015
- Sidney Farber introduces the modern era of chemotherapy in the 1940s; lymphoblastic leukemia.
THE STORY OF CANCER: The Emperor of All Maladies examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective and a biographer’s passion. The series artfully weaves three ...
A story of human ingenuity and perseverance but also of hubris and misperception. More. Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies matches the epic scale of the disease, reshaping the way the public sees ...
Aug 9, 2011 · Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell, The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of ...
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- Siddhartha Mukherjee
THE STORY OF CANCER: The Emperor of All Maladies examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective and a biographer’s passion. The series artfully weaves three ...
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee, tells the complete story of cancer, from its first appearance in the fossilized remains of dinosaurs to the gleaming laboratories of modern research institutions. At six hours, the film interweaves a sweeping historical documentary; with ...
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.
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Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies matches the epic scale of the disease, reshaping the way the public sees cancer and stripping away some of the fear and misunderstanding that has long surrounded it. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, paternalism and misperception.
