The Emperor of All Maladies

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In the decade between 1983 and 1993, a horde of other oncogenes and anti-oncogenes924 (tumor suppressor genes) were swiftly identified in human cancers: myc, neu, fos, ret, akt (all oncogenes), and p53, VHL, APC (all tumor suppressors).