Daniel Borsum’s Reviews > The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > Status Update

Current car ride listen. I have learned that the literal crabby nature of the language surrounding cancer can be sourced back to Hippocrates’s first description of a probable malignant tumor. I have been fascinated by the political history of cancer as a disease and its cure, and how there was once a time when major publications would not circulate articles about it because of concern for public decency.