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Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Agree with Book Prize
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize
Now, as cancer becomes an ever more universal experience, the wish to are aware of it, and its remedy, has never been more compelling. On this groundbreaking and award-winning account Siddhartha Mukherjee tells the fascinating story of our relationship with this disease. From brutal early surgical treatments, to Sidney Farber’s hugely risky discovery of chemotherapy, to the creator’s remedy of his own patients, he reveals how a ways we have now come in solving one in every of science’s great mysteries and offers a captivating glimpse of our future progress.
Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Agree with Book Prize
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize
Now, as cancer becomes an ever more universal experience, the wish to are aware of it, and its remedy, has never been more compelling. On this groundbreaking and award-winning account Siddhartha Mukherjee tells the fascinating story of our relationship with this disease. From brutal early surgical treatments, to Sidney Farber’s hugely risky discovery of chemotherapy, to the creator’s remedy of his own patients, he reveals how a ways we have now come in solving one in every of science’s great mysteries and offers a captivating glimpse of our future progress.