Authors of Defiance of the Patriots and The Emperor of All Maladies

Connecticut Public Radio | By Faith Middleton

Published October 2, 2012 at 4:08 PM EDT

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From its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence, physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. His Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the disease is The Emperor of All Maladies.

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