The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

2010 • 571 pages

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Average rating4.2

15

Pretty good read. Not light hearted and funny obviously, but it caught and held my attention. Not sure how it would have been to actually read it (I had the audio version from Audible), but listening to it in 30 to 45 min segments too and from work was good. I really liked the weaving of actual cancer patient stories into the narrative of the history. The most interesting part, for me, was the relationship between cancer treatment and treatment of HIV/AIDS in 1980's and how that fed back into the cancer treatments in the 1990's.

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