The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today. Among them are two authors who spoke at the Aspen Institute this past year: Siddhartha Mukherjee and Kay Ryan. Dr.
Cancer Physician and Author Siddhartha Mukherjee spoke at the Institute recently about his book The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. In the book, he chronicles the history of cancer, chemotherapy and oncologists. Here, he talks about the first patient to undergo chemotherapy and how his story served as an inspiration for his new book.
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