Siddhartha Mukherjee's 2010 'biography of cancer' — a history of the disease, the science of cancer biology, and the development of cancer treatment from radical surgery through chemotherapy to targeted therapies and immunotherapy.
Creates the most comprehensive narrative history of cancer and oncology — Mukherjee's synthesis of clinical medicine, basic science, and historical narrative makes the complexity of cancer comprehensible and puts the modern era of targeted therapy in historical context.
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