Biography of cancer pdf

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The Einstein Journal of Biology and Medicine 41
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Christopher Beaudoin, BA
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461.
As both a medical student and a cancer patient,
I found that the Pulitzer Prize–winning book
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of
Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, D.Phil., MD
(Simon and Schuster, 2010), gave me at once a dose of
knowledge and a salve for the soul.

Early in the book,
Dr. Mukherjee candidly writes that he started his biography
of cancer as a way, ironically, to escape his “immersive”—read
“drowning”—oncology fellowship. He fled
into the annals of cancer-treatment research to make
sense of the lethal complexity—scientific, emotional,
and human—that he and his patients were experi