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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0


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challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0


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hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Great book as always. Loved hearing some classic tales from my microbio and genetics classes and learning a few more!
Also some amazing and scathing deep dives into the history of surgical treatments of cancer and the tobacco industry.

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challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

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informative inspiring slow-paced

3.0

Quite slow and it's easy to get caught up in the details. I loved the personal stories, but the biological detail a little less. It would be great for anyone who has a relative with cancer in order to learn about the disease. I also enjoyed the historical lens on this biological topic.

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challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0


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challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5


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informative reflective fast-paced

4.0


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informative reflective medium-paced

4.0


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emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.25

This book manages to make me sad and give me hope for the future at the same time. It really shows me why people study cancer and get so committed to the science of it; cancer is both a devastating, horrifying disease but also an incredibly fascinating subject on the cellular level. I love that the author is a doctor himself and not only shows us the science and men and women in the laboratory but humanizes the topic as well and shows us the people hit hardest by cancer: the victims and their families. It started off a little slow but once you get used to the scientific discussions it gets very interesting. A lot of names of scientists and doctors to try to remember, but worth it. An excellent read.

(The trigger warnings about animals are due to the many descriptions of animal testing.)

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