Mukherjee opens his book with the story of one of the founders of the hospital where he trained - Sidney Farber, a specialist in children's diseases who began as a pathologist.

穆克吉在书的开篇讲述了他所在培训医院的创立者之一、儿童疾病专家西德尼·法伯的故事。

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Scientific optimism after the second world war led a leading American oncologist, Sidney Farber, to talk in 1962 of the underlying “singularity” of cancer, and to postulate a “universal cure”.

美国病理学界的领军人物西德尼•法布在二战后的科学乐观主义的指引下，于1962年指出了癌细胞隐含的“突变点”，并且提出了“普遍疗法”的假设。

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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.

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。”

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