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Apr. 01, 2011
Beyond the ‘War,’ The Future Of Cancer Treatment
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| The first written reference to cancer appeared in the seventeenth century BC, but physicians are still struggling to understand the disease 4,000 years later. Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, talks about the history of cancer and the future of treatment. |
Produced by Katherine Wells
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Assistant professor of medicine, Columbia University
Author, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" (Scribner, 2010)
New York, New York
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