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The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery
Jason Highsmith
4.18 AVERAGE
35 reviews for:
The Cancer Code: A Revolutionary New Understanding of a Medical Mystery
Jason Highsmith
4.18 AVERAGE
This was a very interesting book that defines what cancer is and the research that has taken place most recently that has advanced our understanding of the nature of this disease. I worked in oncology in the 2000's and I am glad to have read this because it has better developed my understanding of the disease and taught me about some of the new information we have learned about since I worked in the specialty. It was written very clearly and understandably for people who do not necessarily work in medicine or healthcare.
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One of the rare tour-de-force must-reads in nonfiction. Not a page of filler and beautifully structured and communicated.
If you're like me and always searching for nonfiction summary texts to take a deep educational dive on a topic, you can't do any better than The Cancer Code. I've had my vocabulary greatly expanded and learned so much about cancer from this book. It's not an entertainment popsci book that happens to be about science and makes you say "huh, cool." It's a masterclass explanation of a topic I knew next to nothing about going in but now feel very adequately equipped to discuss and engage with.
It doesn't wax poetic about the future, only includes history when it becomes relevant to the discussion so you'll actually care and remember it, reads so approachably while still so dense, technical, and scientific, and avoids unnecessary recommendations. It isn't preachy, it's teachy. 0.6% advice 99.4% scientific understanding of cancer.
The Cancer Code is what I wish all nonfiction books were like. A book that so consistently overdelivers every single chapter on the promise of educating, intruiging, and contextualizing is so rare, but this nails it.
Essential. I want a Cancer Code for everything. Truly can't recommend this book enough - and will be checking out Dr. Fung's other work in this series
If you're like me and always searching for nonfiction summary texts to take a deep educational dive on a topic, you can't do any better than The Cancer Code. I've had my vocabulary greatly expanded and learned so much about cancer from this book. It's not an entertainment popsci book that happens to be about science and makes you say "huh, cool." It's a masterclass explanation of a topic I knew next to nothing about going in but now feel very adequately equipped to discuss and engage with.
It doesn't wax poetic about the future, only includes history when it becomes relevant to the discussion so you'll actually care and remember it, reads so approachably while still so dense, technical, and scientific, and avoids unnecessary recommendations. It isn't preachy, it's teachy. 0.6% advice 99.4% scientific understanding of cancer.
The Cancer Code is what I wish all nonfiction books were like. A book that so consistently overdelivers every single chapter on the promise of educating, intruiging, and contextualizing is so rare, but this nails it.
Essential. I want a Cancer Code for everything. Truly can't recommend this book enough - and will be checking out Dr. Fung's other work in this series
While Fung has an easy to understand writing style, and he makes somewhat complicated/medical knowledge more readable, and I appreciate the layout of the book and the flow of it, I just cannot get behind the earth being billions of years old. It made it harder for me to really enjoy the book because he was coming at it from an evolutionary standpoint, which for me taints some of the research/science behind the subject. There was some really fascinating information about cancer though and despite the take on the evolution aspect, I will more than likely reread/ listen to the audio and use some of our for reference.
i'm about to infodump about the nature of cancer cells being inherently similar to prokaryotic cells in their cell divisions and glycolysis and other things and about the influence of epigenetics/environment/diet on cancer and everything i ever knew about cancer and the book that started my avid interest was this one and it took me two tries but i'm actually. i'm. people need to know this!! it's eye-opening.
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Compared to Dr Fung’s other books, getting through this one was a struggle. While The Obesity Code and The Diabetes Code resonated what I will call “approachable consumer science”, this book seemed to me to delve much deeper into the hard science. I found myself lost sometimes in the different acronyms and reviews of countless tangents.