I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?
History repeats, but science reverberates. - Siddhartha Mukherjee
History repeats, but science reverberates.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
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 … - Siddhartha Mukherjee
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 …
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching. - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way. - Siddhartha Mukherjee
All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
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… - Siddhartha Mukherjee
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…
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves. - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read. - Siddhartha Mukherjee
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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… - Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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