Jubaidul Haque’s Reviews > The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer > Status Update

"If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients."

"Cancer exploits the fundamental logic of evolution unlike any other illness. If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us."