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The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE CENTURY A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIME ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOK Updated with FOUR NEW MAJOR CHAPTERS illuminating the new developments in cancer detection,...
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 100 BOOK OF THE CENTURY A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIME ALL-TIME 100 NONFICTION BOOK
Updated with FOUR NEW MAJOR CHAPTERS illuminating the new developments in cancer detection, prevention, treatment, and understanding in the fifteen years since the book's first publication, this New York Times bestseller is "an extraordinary achievement" (The New Yorker)βa magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies became an instant classic when it was published in 2010. A magnificent, humane "biography" of cancerβfrom its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic 20th century efforts to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essenceβThe Emperor of All Maladies is one of the most highly acclaimed books of its time.
In the years since Mukherjee dazzled readers with The Emperor of All Maladies, much has changed in the universe of cancerβin our understanding of its causes; in our attempts to prevent it; and in the revolutionary new treatments. In four profound and revelatory new chaptersβessentially a new book about cancerβhe illuminates this disease with both a bird's eye view of the landscape and an acute focus on the role of the cell. He also looks at imminent new studiesβand to the future.
Riveting, audacious, and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is a masterpiece.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781668222010
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 November 2025
Imprint: Scribner Book Company
Edition: Reissue ed.
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 46.0mm
Width: 163.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 930g
Pages: 720
About the Author
Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Song of the Cell, The Gene: An Intimate History, a #1 New York Times bestseller; The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction; and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013. Mukherjee is an associate professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. In 2023, he was elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has published articles in many journals, including Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker. Visit his website at: SiddharthaMukherjee.com.
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