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title: "1 Cancer Cell Quotes By Siddartha Mukherjee"
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> [“This image—of cancer as our desperate, malevolent, contemporary doppelgänger—is so haunting because it is at least partly true. A cancer cell is an astonishing perversion of the normal cell. Cancer is a phenomenally successful invader and colonizer in part because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddartha-mukherjee/this-image-of-cancer-as-our-desperate-malevolent-contemporary-doppelg/)

Siddartha Mukherjee

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## More by Siddartha Mukherjee

> [“This image—of cancer as our desperate, malevolent, contemporary doppelgänger—is so haunting because it is at least partly true. A cancer cell is an astonishing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddartha-mukherjee/this-image-of-cancer-as-our-desperate-malevolent-contemporary-doppelg/)

Siddartha Mukherjee

> [“It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siddartha-mukherjee/it-is-an-old-complaint-about-the-practice-of-medicine-that-it-inures/)

Siddartha Mukherjee

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