Amazing read for those interested in oncology.
Here’s the author’s note
“This book is a history of cancer. It is a chronicle of an ancient disease – once a clandestine, “whispered-about” illness – that has metamorphosed into a lethal shape-shifting entity imbued with such penetrating metaphorical medical, scientific, and political potency that cancer is often described as the defining plague of our generation. This book is a “biography” in the truest sense of the word – an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour. But my ultimate aim is to raise a question beyong biography: Is cancer’s end conceivable in the future? Is it possible to eradicate this disease from our bodies and societies forever?”
