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The history of cancer

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Cancer directly affects one in three people in the UK - it seems increasingly rife but has been with us for five thousands years.

Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer and Peter Johnson of Cancer Research UK discuss the history of the disease.


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