Last month, Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
Back in November, Dr. Mukherjee was interviewed by Terri Gross on NPR's Fresh Air. They re-broadcast the show in the wake of the award. Terri really did her homework and brought many well informed questions that pierced the medical jargon and targeted the most crucial insights. And Dr. Mukherjee is extremely articulate and carefully answered the questions in a very instructive way that didn’t disregard the laymen listening.
The book seems thoroughly fascinating and worthy of the Pulitzer. It traces the history and understanding of the disease, as well as some of the development of many modern treatments (including dramatic new treatments). In the interview, Dr. Mukherjee briefly discussed research done to examine how cancer evades a patient's immune system and what can be done to assist the immune system in engaging the disease.
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