—Tracing cancer’s evolution throughout history and through the body—
The Non-fiction Feature
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Scribner
Pages: 608 | 2011
The implication of Pott’s work was far-reaching. If soot, and not some mystical, numinous humor…caused scrotal cancer, then two facts had to be true.
First, external agents, rather than imbalances of internal fluids, had to lie at the root of carcinogenesis…Second, if a foreign substance was truly the cause, then cancer was potentially preventable.
The Memoir Spot
The Undying
Anne Boyer
“At the fullest expression of its treatment, breast cancer is near total strike:
striking hair, striking eyelashes, striking eyebrows, striking skin, striking thought, striking language, striking feeling, striking vigor, striking appetite, striking eros, striking maternity, striking productivity, striking immune system, negated fertility, negated breasts.”
The Product Spot
Cancer screening tests
Cancer screening tests aim to find cancer when it may be easier to treat successfully.