Most of us will have been profoundly affected by cancer, if not in our personal then certainly in our professional lives. Johnson elegantly tells a fascinating chronological tale of cancer; from finding osteosarcoma in dinosaur fossils through to Marie Curie, to the more recent serendipitous discovery of cisplatin and the groundbreaking research being done to outpace cancer in the future. Complicated cell biology terms vaguely remembered from medical school are explained simply in this very readable and measured text.
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