In the past decade, cancer hit our family like a tornado and completely changed the way I look at cancer. A year ago, doctors found signs of early-stage cancer in my dad’s stomach during another operation. Shortly after that, my dad’s two sisters got diagnosed with cancer and went through a long period of chemo (and are luckily now both in remission). Their deaths happened so suddenly and brutally that I didn’t even get a chance to understand the nature of their disease. Colon cancer and lung cancer took my uncle and my great uncle’s life, within 6 months of the diagnose. In the past 10 years, things have changed significantly for my family. It was one of those rare and horrifying diseases that you only see in the movies. When I was young, cancer was such an alien term. Ken Burns subsequently made a 6-hour documentary based on this book. This book is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and named top book of 2010 by a dozen major news agency. It’s a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance it’s also a story of failures, deaths, misconceptions and human limits. This is a magnificent “biography” of cancer - from its first documented appearances several thousand years ago to the relentless battles we have been fighting to decipher, control, cure and conquer this disease in the past century.
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