Leopold, who specializes in writing about the politics of health, describes how nearly every aspect of our understanding and discussion of cancer bears the imprint of its Cold War entanglement. She writes about the current biases toward individual rather than corporate responsibility for rising cancer incidence rates, research that promotes treatment rather than prevention, and therapies the can be patented and marketed. Taking into account a wide array of disciplines, her book challenges the understanding of cancer and how we approach its treatment.