Now, as cancer becomes an ever more universal experience, the need to understand it, and its treatment, has never been more compelling. In this groundbreaking account of the history of cancer, written with a storyteller's flair, Siddhartha Mukherjee reveals how far we have come in solving one of science's great mysteries and offers a fascinating glimpse of our future progress. He tells a riveting tale of chance discoveries, seized opportunities and human endurance, all of it aiming to allow us to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour. The author's ultimate aim is to raise the question: Is cancer's end conceivable in the future? Is it possible to eradicate this disease from our bodies and societies forever? You might not agree with every word, but you will finish this book informed, inspired, and armed with thousands of check-able references. Mukherjee's book allows us to look our enemy straight in the eye and say 'I know you'.
610pp, 130mm x 197mm, softback, 2011