Although cancer was first documented thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt, it is a disease that has long lingered at the margins of medicine--noticed only when other diseases, like tuberculosis and smallpox, had been largely eradicated. Oncologist Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee attempts to shine a light on this often misunderstoond and terrifying disease in his book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. He recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths and traces the history of the disease in patients from Persian Queen Atossa to his own leukemia patients in Boston.

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Not one mention of vitamin D and its anti-cancer implications, now that a voluminous body of studies are piling up. I guess the cancer industry just can't give up its endless research, historical investigations, and scientific proselytizing. There's no money in vitamin D prescriptions (unless they're somehow planning that through any future Codex legislation)...
With many billionaires pledging to give away part of their fortune, I've wondered how much of a donation would be required to cure cancer within 5-10 years.
Please ask Dr. Mukherjee if he has any opinions about the following:
1. Thermography for earliest detection.
2. The very successful work of Dr. Stanislas Burzynski and neoplastons in his Houston clinic for curing cancer.
Thanks,
There's a notion that wild animals don't get cancer, that it's a disease of modern humanity and civilization, how true or false is this idea?
It seems to me that the prevalence of cancer in the United States might be sensitive to a number of top-down policy initiatives--more stringent regulation of chemicals with unknown carcinogenic effects, for example. Thoughts on this? I would think that driving down the overall number of people who get cancer might be a higher priority than a cure.
Am I the only patient diagnosed with mesothelioma who, to the best of my knowldedge, has had no exposure to asbestos? I have heard of non-smokers getting lung cancer .
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