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  • A Biography of Cancer
  • By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
  • Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (49 ratings)
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Summary

A magnificent, beautifully written "biography" of cancer - from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence.

The Emperor of All Maladies reveals the many faces of an iconic, shape-shifting disease that is the defining plague of our generation. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance but also of hubris, arrogance, paternalism, and misperception, all leveraged against a disease that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out "war against cancer". Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary. The audiobook is like a literary thriller with cancer as the central character.

From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave may have cut off her diseased breast, to the 19th-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee's own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through toxic, bruising, and draining regimens in order to survive - and to increase the store of human knowledge.

©2010 Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D. All rights reserved. (P)2015 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Outstanding and inspiring

Truly recommended read. The book is well-researched and written in a way that shows the outstanding complexity of cancer as a disease. The production of this audiobook is fantastic too.
As an early-stage cancer researcher, I found this book extremely helpful in providing information missed in the lectures, highly motivational and thought-provoking. I would highly recommend it to any early-career scientist in STEM.

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Outstanding

Bought this after THE GENE. Incredible piece of work less technical than THE GENE. I take my hat off to the author and narrator for both books .

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A history of cancer

This is an encompassing history of cancer; from the perspective of early societies, current society, and the Authors own experience as an oncologist. There are anecdotes, historical analyses, and half-technical scientific information.
It is not just about cancer but also, unavoidably, about the relevant subjects in medicine in general.
Good for anyone in the bio-medical field, or with a personal interest in cancer/medicine.
Easily one of my favorite books, and despite the informative 22 hours, worth it all if you have some patience.

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Outstanding insight

Very comprehensive history and told in an enthralling way. I was hooked after the first chapter. I did find that the latter half was quite technical, a difficult thing to get right in an. Audibook, but the narrator held my interest most of the time. Worth 22 hours.

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Truly fascinating, well written and resarched.

Loved this book. It is written in such a way that one learns not only about the history of the disease and the struggles to understand its cause and its treatment but about many other things as well: about doctors and patients, about researchers,la and campaigners, about how science progresses (or doesn't), about how we get new drugs (and don't), about biology and genetics, and about life and death. And about how to tell a great story. A wonderful read.

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