Helpful Score: 2
This book should be required reading for all new oncologists and cancer researchers. It covers cancer's history through the ups and downs. Best of all, it is engaging and not a bore to read. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to know more about the seemingly mysterious disease that is cancer.
Helpful Score: 2
Buyers should be aware that this book is written purely from an oncologist's point of view, as in 'look at all the fine new treatments we now have' with very little mention of hideous side effects on patients. Tamoxifen, for instance, is described as 'almost free of side effects.' For a book published in 2010, this is remarkably disingenuous. Or else the author just doesn't want to know about that part.
