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A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF CANCER

Friday, March 27, 2015

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Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, charts cancer’s 2,500 year history, from ancient Egypt to today’s breakthroughs, along the way exploring our relationship to cancer as a character in our cultural consciousness.  

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 Siddhartha Mukherjee

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 Brooke Gladstone

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