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

Parts three and four: Feminism pushes for trials that disprove radical mastectomy, hormone treatment, measures of (lack of) progress, chimney sweeps and carcinogens, battle against the tobacco industry, bacterial carcinogens, prevention (pap smears/mammograms), bone marrow transfusions and megadose chemotherapy (later disproven), AIDS, experiment as treatment, law suits against insurance companies, Bezwoda's scam.

Part two: Mary Lasker (allied with Farber) and cancer philanthrophy/policy, Frei and Freireich and multidrug chemotherapy, Hodgkin's lymphoma, Peyton Rous and cancer-causing viruses, Nixon and the war on cancer (c.f. Manhattan Project, putting a man on the moon). Learning a lot but bothered by the (lack of) structure and fluctuating timeframes.

Part one: Cancer in antiquity (shorter lifespans so more rare), Galen’s black bile theory, Vesalius’s study of anatomy, anesthesia and antisepsis + Halsted's radical surgery at the turn of the century, radiation, specificity, Ehrlich and chemistry for biology (German dye companies and mustard gas), Trudy Elion, Farber and antifolate, media campaigns. Ties to colonialism (anemia in Bombay, dyes for textile industry).