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A little tangential, but I'd highly recommend Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies

It really helped me appreciate how we went from treating people with anything that'd kill their cells to highly specific drugs that target genetic pathways.




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