In The Cancer Chronicles, George Johnson, like a science-writing alchemist, transforms his fear-fueled by his wife Nancy's metastatic-cancer diagnosis-into gold, in the form of a well-written and thoroughly researched exploration of the current state of cancer science. Johnson journeys through labs bent on cracking cancer's code, ferreting out its causes, its molecular eccentricities, and its treatment. His wife's struggle with the disease serves as a constant touchstone without subsuming his sober treatment of evidence, data, and reason.
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