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The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery by George Johnson (view source)
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We have reached a point where no one is unaffected by cancer, directly or indirectly. That is to say, there is no one to whom this book will not be relevant. 'All of us acquire our own personal cancer clusters,' Johnson astutely notes. Whether this would be one's first choice of reading material is another matter. I like memoirs and popular science, so I enjoyed Johnson's erudite mixture of the two genres, but I can see how others would be put off by both the weighty scientific subject and the pessimistic tone. However, I encourage reluctant readers to give this one a try. You will learn more than you might expect, and explode many myths along the way.
Further reading suggestion: You might want to try another of the author's books, [[The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson|The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments]]. [[Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen]] is a very gripping work of popular science. You might also appreciate [[The Lazarus Effect by Sam Parnia]].
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