2014 – p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code by Sue Armstrong. Goodreads page is here. A useful and learned 2015 review by Prives is here. A 2015 Boston Globe review is here.
2013 – The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment, by Jessica Wapner. Goodreads page is here.
2010 – The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee. It won the 2011 Pulitizer Prize for non-fiction. It is a biography of cancer. It is wonderful.
Movies and Videos
2015 – PBS turned Emperor of All Maladies into a wonderful miniseries. See this page at PBS for segments and other options.
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