It is not surprising really, as the adage goes, write about what you know, and Dr. I appreciated the historical accounts of cancer, how the three treatment modalities came to be developed and the recent account of the discovery of the HER2+ targeted therapy Herceptin.īut I must admit, I found the detail overwhelming at times and with each new chapter I kept hoping for a glimpse outside of the conventional cancer treatment world, such as alternative therapies or nutrition therapies but this never came. Insights including the personality of the researchers, the location of their labs, their relationships to each other-it’s all here-in amazingly detailed story telling. But if you are interested in these three main conventional treatments and how they came to be the standard therapy for cancer, then this is the book for you. If you are interested in other attempts to treat cancer outside of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery then you will be disappointed. But a biography from the western medicine view of cancer. The subtitle is very appropriate – this is a biography of cancer. Reading this book was a relationship… four hundred and seventy pages on the history of cancer in the western world (plus glossary and references). The Emperor of All Maladies, A Biography of Cancer By Siddhartha Mukherjee
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