Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years.
This is the only book I would recommend wholeheartedly to anyone. If you have been touched by cancer and want to know more about the history, definitions, and prognosis for cancer research and treatment, you can do no better than to start here. If you've worked in the cancer community, this book will connect the dots of things you were sure you understood previously. Or at least what you know will be stated more clearly. If you enjoy good writing and don't necessarily think you have an interest in cancer, you will revel in the Mukherjee's prose. Good oncologists are a dime a dozen, so to speak, but few if any have yet been able to clearly communicate such a misunderstood topic as the author does here.
