About the Book: Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The story of cancer is a human one?a tale of chance discoveries, seized
opportunities and human endurance. From innovative early surgeries to the Curies
ultimately tragic work with radiation, from Sidney Farbershugely risky discovery
of chemotherapy to the authorstreatment of his own patients, The Emperor of All
Maladies is a profound and revelatory portrait of an enigmatic disease humans
have lived with, and perished from, for more than five thousand years. In this
updated edition of Siddhartha Mukherjeesinstant classic, four new chapters
reveal what has changed in the universe of cancer in the years since