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In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.

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History repeats, but science reverberates.

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I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options …

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All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

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Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

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Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

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If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism o…

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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

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Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

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Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an il…

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