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The Emperor of all Maladies
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(...metamorphosed into a lethal
shape-shifting enttiy imbued with
such penterating metaphorical,
medical, scientific, and political
potency that cancer is often
described as the defining plague of
our generation ...) F¶mWv
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Pnkväv ]dbp¶Xv {i²n
¡mw :
Cancer is built into our
genomes: the genes that unmoor
normal cell division are not foreign
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