![]() ![]() ![]() There is something monstrous about a disease that kills by wanting to live cancer's goal is to grow and prosper, with absolutely no regard for its host. It was the second-leading cause of death in the United States then - just as it is now - but it was as mysterious to most people as mortality itself. In his Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee writes that as recently as the 1950s, cancer was so feared and taboo that the New York Times refused to print the word in a support-group advertisement. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Fault in Our Stars Author John Green
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