The Emperor of All Maladies

1 Mukherjee stated that the first known breast cancer patient was the Persian Queen Atossa in 500BC. She received the most primitive f...

1. in the final chapter of the book, the author creates a fictional journey for Queen Atossa through time to demonstrate how cancer treatmen...

1. So many of the scientific breakthroughs have impacted cancer research such as Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of the X-Ray in 1895, a...

1. So many of the scientific breakthrough that impacted cancer research such as the discovery of X-rays occurred by accident. What other cha...

3 In the 1950s, people were terrified of cancer and did not want to talk about let alone face them. The New York Times refused...

Cannibalistic cancer? Cancer’s got a new enemy—drugs that block autophagy, the process of cellular cannibalism that is increased in many can...