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The film, in three episodes of two hours each, is based on the pulitzer prizewinning 2010 book the emperor of all maladies. The emperor of all maladies closes its threenight run acknowledging narrator edward herrman and producerstand up. He is best known for his 2010 book, the emperor of all maladies. A biography of cancer is a ambitious and successful book for which there is not yet a clear ending. The hieroglyphics record a probable case of breast.