

While describing the epic journey that humanity has gone through to understand Cancer, Mukherjee is always walking on a tight-rope. Rather it is the story of thousands of patients such as Robert Sandler, Barbara Bradfield, Carla Reed and their struggles and more importantly, their resilience, and of physicians such as Sidney Farber who dedicated their entire lives studying the disease, its cures and preventions. Normal cells are identically normal malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways.Īptly named, a "biography" of Cancer, this book illustrates the 4,000-year journey to understand this omnipresent disease.
