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12.10.2024
You have cancer! Really?
Many patients who hear from their doctor they have cancer, feel trapped. Speechlessness, frightening, often panic. The doctor reassured. Often the tumor is located in a benign stage. In a variety of cancer diagnoses cancer is harmless. The...
Hyper accurate: pdd
Medicine today has several methods for the diagnosis of cancer. However, imaging, endoscopy and laboratory tests are not sufficient to assess the spread of tumor cells in the body and to locate these cells exactly. This gap is filled by photody...
Dear Michael Douglas
Since 2011 you have lived without cancer: we are glad to hear this. How the larynx cancer might have developed, a British journalist asked you recently. If your wild years triggered the larynx cancer: drugs, smoking, alcohol? That was the ...
Caries, periodontitis, cancer
“Please open your mouth!” the dentist says. Their well-trained eye does not only detect caries and periodontitis at the teeth, but also abnormal cell proliferation in the oral cavity and pharynx. And then there is for example this r...
Simple. Ingenious: PDT-plaster
How can we treat white skin cancer in the sensitive area of the face? “Newly, with a plaster”, says Prof. Dr. Uwe Reinhold from Bonn. The first self-adhesive PDT-plaster contains the active agent 5-aminolevulin acid in cryst...
Amsterdam Experiences
Dr. Baris Karakullukcu is an otolaryngologist with further specialization on head and neck oncology and surgery, working at the Netherlands Cancer Institute/ Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam. He is working extensively on photodynamic the...
Tongue amputated
Shortly before Christmas 2011, the largest German daily tabloid BILD wrote about popular German actor Claus Biederstaedt (83): "Tongue amputated, cancer cured." An amputation is a high price to pay for a cure. The loss of a part of t...
Vaccine against Cancer?
Oncologist M.D. Winrich Rauschning says on the occasion of the World Cancer Day 2012: “We are on track here: Research in molecular biology reveals the mechanisms of carcinogenesis. That resulted in the idea to influence specific metabolic pr...
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cur...
The Inner Doctor
Many patients are conviced that their healing requires two doctors: The oncologist providing medical competency with certain theurapeutic options - and the inner doctor activating the healing powers of the patient: Faith, will, psyche, power, fitn...
Sigmund Freud
In 1923, the doctors diagnosed cancer in Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), the founder of psychoanalysis, a carcinoma in his palatine which made numerous operations necessary in the following years. After having received the diagnosis, the ex...
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You have cancer! Really?
Many patients who hear from their doctor they have cancer, feel trapped. Speechlessness,...
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Hyper accurate: pdd
Medicine today has several methods for the diagnosis of cancer. However, imaging, endoscopy...
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Dear Michael Douglas
Since 2011 you have lived without cancer: we are glad to hear this. How the larynx...
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Caries, periodontitis, cancer
“Please open your mouth!” the dentist says. Their well-trained eye does not only...
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Simple. Ingenious: PDT-plaster
How can we treat white skin cancer in the sensitive area of the face? “Newly,...
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Amsterdam Experiences
Dr. Baris Karakullukcu is an otolaryngologist with further specialization on head and neck...
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Tongue amputated
Shortly before Christmas 2011, the largest German daily tabloid BILD wrote about popular German...
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Vaccine against Cancer?
Oncologist M.D. Winrich Rauschning says on the occasion of the World Cancer Day 2012: “We...
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The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane...
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The Inner Doctor
Many patients are conviced that their healing requires two doctors: The oncologist providing...
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Sigmund Freud
In 1923, the doctors diagnosed cancer in Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), the founder of...
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—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. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years.
The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.
From the Persian Queen Atossa, whose Greek slave may have cut off her diseased breast, to the nineteenth-century recipients of primitive radiation and chemotherapy to Mukherjee’s own leukemia patient, Carla, The Emperor of All Maladies is about the people who have soldiered through fiercely demanding regimens in order to survive—and to increase our understanding of this iconic disease.
Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
Mukherjee, Siddharta: The emporor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.