Early in Monday’s first installment of PBS’ “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” a statistic about cancer’s toll in the United States is offered to convey the magnitude of the subject. “More will ...

An ancient historian wrote of a Persian queen who fell ill. She had symptoms that sounded very much like breast cancer. That centuries old case got cancer doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee thinking.

In the second century A.D., the Greek physician Claudius Galen proposed that cancer was an excess of an oily liquid called black bile. His view of cancer as a hopeless, systemic disease prevailed for ...

The following is an excerpt from The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns ...

After our conversation with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee about his new book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," Dr. Mukherjee offered to answer some questions submitted by NewsHour ...

Pushing the envelope of discovery is the great theme of cancer research. One great theme in cancer over the last hundred years is the bravery, the heroism of scientists, doctors and their patients, ...

In Europe, they once had a Hundred Years War. Our own War on Terror has been going on for about a decade. But the War on Cancer — well, as Siddhartha Mukherjee ...

Scolari died last month from cancer. Hanks said he and Scolari were the only two men in the cast of the show. They portrayed two men, who dressed as women, to live in a women-only apartment building, ...

Mukherjee's debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists and patients alike ...

Siddhartha Mukherjee, read by Stephen Hoye, Tantor Audio, unabridged, 16 CDs, 20.5 hrs., $49.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1917-2 Mukherjee's magisterial history of cancer research is poorly served by Stephen ...