How the institute came to be is one of many interwoven stories traced in "The Emperor of All Maladies," by Siddhartha Mukherjee, an oncologist at Columbia University. The national strategy in the so-called war against cancer has been coordinated within its glistening towers, resulting in these triumphs: The United States boasts the highest breast, colon and prostate cancer survival rates in the world, and more American scientists have been awarded Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine than almost all other nations combined. The National Cancer Institute is one of the crown jewels of the American health care system.
By Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner 571 pages $30)
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