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In a sense, this is a military history—one in which the adversary is formless, timeless, and pervasive. Here, too, there are victories and losses, campaigns upon campaigns, heroes and hubris, survival and resilience—and inevitably, the wounded, the condemned, the forgotten, the dead. In the end,
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According to Mukherjee, the book was a response to the demand of a patient: "I'm willing to go on fighting, but I need to know what it is that I'm battling." Mukherjee states that two of his influences for the book were
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commended Mukherjee's narrative: "It is so well written, and the science is so clearly explained, that it reads almost like a detective story—which, of course, it is."
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as well as the history of cancer treatment and research. Mukherjee gives the history of cancer from its first identification 4,600 years ago by the Egyptian physician
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wrote that "Mukherjee manages to convey not only a forensically precise picture of what he sees, but a shiver too, of what he feels."
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cancer truly emerges, as a nineteenth-century surgeon once wrote in a book's frontispiece, as "the emperor of all maladies, the
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thus considered illness to be an imbalance of four cardinal fluids: blood, black bile, yellow bile, phlegm.
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January/February 2011 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a
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In the 20th century, cancer became the second most common cause of death after heart disease in the
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Book by Siddhartha Mukherjee on the history of cancer and oncology
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2015: Persian: "سرطان امپراطور بیماری‌ها", The House of Biology (
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
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to treat cancer, thus identifying another treatment modality.
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L'empereur de toutes les maladies. Une biographie du cancer
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El emperador de todos los males: Una biografía del cáncer
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induced temporary remission in pediatric leukemia using
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O Imperador de Todos os Males. Uma biografia do cancro
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The book weaves together Mukherjee's experiences as a
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Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning works
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Book cover; shows a crab in the center of the page, with the title above and the subtitle and author beneath
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer
Non-fiction
ISBN
978-1-4391-0795-9
Siddhartha Mukherjee
oncologist
Scribner
author's note
king of terrors
hematology
oncology
fellow
Massachusetts General Hospital
Imhotep
Hippocrates
Galen
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