Breast Cancer: The Empress of All Maladies

October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I felt totally immersed in a paper storm, an overload of information on the topic. Making my immersion even deeper, while preparing two breast cancer talks, I was also in the thrall of an amazing book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer” by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee. When I closed my eyes at night, I had visions of a swirling vortex of tables and graphs.