![]() ![]() The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance 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’. ![]() 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. In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize ![]() Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 ![]()
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