Pulitzer winner-2011
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Mukherjee dedicates his book to “Robert Sandler” and to all those who fought and continue to fight against cancer. In 1947, two year old Robert was the first leukemic patient to be tested with Farber’s antifolates. Robert even responded to aminopterin, though his cancer relapsed. The journey till the antifolates was not an easy one and it took decades after decades to traverse the path from the identification of cancer 4000 years ago to what is known of cancer today.
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