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|title=The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery

|sort=Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery, The

|publisher=Bodley Head

|date=August 2013

|website=http://talaya.net/

|video=qDXh3n3Mzmw

|summary=From prehistoric times to current developments, a popular science writer surveys the phenomenon of cancer, all along blending personal anecdote with cutting-edge research.

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George Johnson, a popular science writer more comfortable in the fields of physics and cosmology, started his journey into cancer when his wife, Nancy, was diagnosed with a rare uterine variety. He took it as an opportunity not just for personal soul-searching (why her? why now?), but also for a wide-ranging odyssey into current research about what causes cancer and how long it has been with us.

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.

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