RaveThe Independent... a story of pioneers and mavericks; of serendipity, risk-taking and wild leaps of faith; of meetings of minds that changed medical history and obsessive experiments conducted in solitude ... feels like essential reading ... The full palette of human nature is revealed here ... The book\'s six sections are well-balanced, spread between medical strides of the past, more recent challenges, case studies, and current research. It is heartening, and daunting, to read of our deeper understanding of the cancer cell\'s biological make-up ... De-mystifying the disease, rendering the science accessible, and wearing respect for the patients uppermost, The Emperor of All Maladies is the book that many will have been waiting for. This elegantly written overview allows us to look a once whispered-about illness squarely in the eye.
