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It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
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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…
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History repeats, but science reverberates.
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Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
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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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One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
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This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical…
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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…
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It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster…
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All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
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It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in…
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In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even…
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Suppose you went to your priest and asked for help; he would refer you to the Bible. But if you went the…
— John Templeton
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The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate…
— Corinne Heline
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On the last day, when the general examination takes place, there will be no question at all on the text of Aristotle,…
— Robert Bellarmine
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It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in…
— Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.
— Aristotle
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Throughout the history of medicine, including the shamanic healing traditions, the Greek tradition of Asclepius, Aristotle and Hippocrates, and the folk and…
— Jeanne Achterberg
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How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.
— Jean-Martin Charcot
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In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
— Luis Bunuel
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