Malignant Growth

An examination of the first attempt to conquer cancer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.   In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915 , Alan I Marcus explores a relatively understudied period in the history of cancer by providing a careful investigation of the first public crusade to determine the cause of cancer. The search for cancer’s cause during the heady era of bacteriology was colored by the Germ Theory of Disease. Researchers