It's really hard for me to rate this book because I read for pleasure and it was not a pleasurable book to read (or in my case, listen). For me it was an achievement to finish it because it was a bit over my head in parts and I found my thoughts wandering. Still, I did learn a bit about cancer ...
8.5/10I have started writing this review a few times, but due to recent events, I've found it extremely hard to finish. This is such a well crafted and deeply researched book. It has seemingly everything you could want from and overview of cancer and at the same time makes some complex subjects...
Remarkable! I put off reading this for a while because I thought it would be depressing or boring or both. How interesting could something billed as a biography of cancer be? I was pleasantly surprised to find this substantial volume fascinating. Mukherjee is a great storyteller, weaving acco...
—Samuel 22:43 Cancer therapy is like beating the dog with a stick to get rid of his fleas. —Anna Deavere Smith, Let Me Down Easy February was my cruelest month. The second month of 2004 arrived with a salvo of deaths and relapses, each marked with the astonishing, punctuated clarity of a gunshot ...
Even as we train massive machines to collect, store, and manipulate data for us, humans are the final observers, interpreters, and arbiters of that data. In medicine, the biases are particularly acute for two reasons. The first is hope: we want our medicines to work. Hope is a beautiful thing in ...