A review by mackreads324
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

informative slow-paced

3.5

As an oncology nurse, I have heard of this book for a while and just needed to carve out the time to read it. It serves as a “biography” of cancer; a large feat for one book. Cancer, encompassing several different individual diagnoses, took on the enigmatic role of almost a villainous character. I will be honest: this book is dense. If you do not have medical knowledge or experience in the cancer world, I could see how this book would seem like too much information to consume at once. But as someone in this field, I found this book to be an easy to follow, concise (yes the book is long; but cancer has a long history), and comprehensive.