当拉斯科十九世纪四十年代在华盛顿遇到癌症研究人员西德尼·法伯，慕克吉写到：那就像是“两位各持有一半地图的迷路人的相遇。”

When Lasker met the cancer researcher Sidney Farber, in Washington in the late nineteen-forties, it was, Mukherjee writes, “like the meeting of two stranded travelers, each carrying one-half of a map.

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“我们想要医好我们的治疗，”纪念斯隆·凯特琳癌症中心的肺科专家彼得·B·巴赫说，“而不要看起来更漂亮的治疗方案。”

“We want the thing that makes us better, ” says Dr. Peter B. Bach, a pulmonary specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, “not the thing that is niftier.”

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例如：美国西德尼·科恩案件，它被诊断为癌症，只有三个月的生命了。

For example: the case of American Sidney Cohen, who was diagnosed with cancer and given three months to live.

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