As I read about leukemia in the prologue reading, my thoughts on the disease are that leukemia has industrial strength. To emphasize, the physical deterioration of destruction from leukemia described by Dr. Mukherjee diverted me from my previous thoughts of leukemia. Additionally, my previous thoughts deemed the disease as tenuous in its nature. No doubt, I know that such thinking is from ignorance. Ultimately, while reading the prologue of “The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, I became in awed by the cutthroat description of leukemia and intrigued by Dr. Mukherjee’s thoughts on cancer. My astonishment first came from an impressionable description of leukemia in the book, “Leukemia is cancer of the white blood cells--cancer in one of its most explosive, violent incarnations.” (Mukherjee 2). Accordingly, such description made me feel pain from reading the phrase because I did not know how violent leukemia is. Notably, I have only met three people in my life with leukemia and their disease was slow-growing. Additionally, the three people I know diagnosed with leukemia often appeared as healthy people, which made me believe …show more content…
However, in the back of my mind, I wondered how do doctors not let their patient's sickness wrap them in a bubble in the hospital. As I continued to read, I even questioned how does Dr. Mukherjee not let a disease such as cancer drown him in lab work or drive him insanity because of how intricate the nature of cancer is. The answer I received from the book was that “Cancer was an all-consuming presence in our lives…” (Mukherjee 4). In that statement, I felt that being the person diagnosing a cancer patient can still be the person somehow affected by cancer without the disease being in their own body. To me, that one notion showed how powerful the disease is and that doctors often drive themselves to insanity trying to find a