Siddhartha Mukherjee on understanding cancer now

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In 2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of cancer, “The Emperor of All Maladies.” Now, he’s back with an update on how our understanding of cancer has advanced -- and what lies ahead.

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0:59.8	Cancer is a disease that has plagued human beings for, well, as long as we've been humans.
1:06.1	It's an insidious disease and a personal one, one that arises from within our own DNA, genetic mutations
1:13.7	that result in an explosion of abnormal cell growth. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee has dedicated
1:20.6	his life's work to understand how cancer behaves, how to treat it, how to think about it.
1:27.5	And in 2010, he wrote about cancer in his book, The Emperor of All Maladies.
1:32.6	He won the Pulitzer Prize for that.
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