Cancer is a frightening word. Even with all the advancements in early diagnosis, screenings tests, and chemotherapy, it's still a word that no one wants to hear. My dad died of advanced cancer 9 years ago. They couldn't even tell where it has started and it was too late to matter. He died a week later.

So if you hand me a book about what's next in the treatment of the disease, I will definitely read it. This book, however, really exceeded my expectations. There's so much in here, from what cancer is exactly and how humans came to understand the disease to how we began to fight it.

It's incredibly rich and detailed. I wouldn't call it an easy read. It's full of names and scientific concepts you will never have heard of. But it was fascinating stuff. And for all the assumptions that people have about the disease, I came away from the book feeling quite positive about the future. So many brilliant researchers are working on so many different treatments. One way or another, humans are going to beat this disease

This was a brilliant and heavy emotional read. It was clearly very well researched and compellingly informative.
It is a brilliant read for anyone in the medical field, someone looking for a more in-depth look at cancer, or like me, someone grieving a loss due to cancer and looking for an explanation.

Recommended for fans of The Emporer of All Maladies.

This is a fascinating book, told in an easy-to-follow narrative format. There’s so much going on in cancer research and Kinch covers the material with ease.

As someone pursuing a career in medicine, I'm excited to read this book. The author, Michael Kinch, is quite qualified to tell this tale and this book could be read alongside Siddhartha Mukherjee's the Emperor of all Maladies, but focuses more on the history of cancer treatment, while Mukherjee's book focuses more on cancer as an illness. I'm sure this book will serve an important role in telling the tale of cancer's demise.