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It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.

Siddhartha Mukherjee's Popular Quotes

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

- Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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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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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 was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

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History repeats, but science reverberates.

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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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