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“I’d say it has become a modern classic of cancer and maybe even of popular medical science. It is described, both in the subtitle and by many people, as ‘a biography of cancer.’ I would say it’s more like a biography of cancer research. It’s telling the story of cancer medicine, the development of cancer charities, and the politics around cancer, including Richard Nixon’s war on cancer, all the way to the present (or 2010, when the book came out).” Read more...
“The book has to do with cancer, and radiation is of course closely associated with cancer. It has this dual personality of both causing and curing cancer. This book speaks to both of those aspects, and it does so from a human perspective. You see cancer through the eyes of the patients who are suffering from the disease, and you see it through the eyes of the physicians, who are frustrated in their efforts to cure people with the disease…A tremendous amount of cancer biology comes through in that book through the eyes of the victims and the people up close and personal.” Read more...
Timothy J. Jorgensen, Biologist
