A very good read, and I assume an accurate summary of cancer's history, teaching me a great deal. Generally well-presented. Mukherjee clearly cares about the subject matter and his patients.
I was a little off-put by some of the commentary Mukherjee inserted into the narrative (why did the Canadian trial "lurch"? ) and his attempts to tug our hearts with peculiar numerical statements—comparing the drop in mortality from one type of cancer to the rate of increase of occurrences of two other types of cancers may sound impressive, but what does it really mean?
Still, these are fairly minor quibbles, and I found myself briskly pulled along to the end.