TY - BOOK AU - Mukherjee, Sidhartha TI - The emperor of all maladies : : a biography of cancer SN - 978-0-00-742805-2 U1 - 616.994 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Fourth Estate, KW - Cancer -- Popular works. Cancer -- Treatment -- History. Health and Fitness N1 - Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2011 Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize; "Of blacke cholor, without boyling" -- An impatient war -- "Will you turn me out if I can't get better?" -- Prevention is the cure -- "A distorted version of our normal selves" -- The fruits of long endeavors -- Atossa's war N2 - A recount of the centuries-long conflict surrounding cancer and cancer treatments and a revelation of of how far we have come in solving one of science's greatest mysteries ER -