Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a…

— Siddhartha 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…

— Siddartha Mukherjee

“Cancer is a sneaky animal. It starts right in the middle of normal cells so that our immune system does not recognize it and…

— Sattar Memon

“Everyone in the audience knew what that meant. On top of saying they’d possibly wasted more than a decade and millions of research dollars,…

— Rebecca Skloot

Actually, as cancers develop in an individual patient, an individual cancer cell might be different - a little bit different - from the cell…

— Tyler Jacks

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

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The secret to battling cancer, then, is to find means to prevent these mutations from occurring in susceptible cells, or to find means to…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell. This growth is unleashed by mutations—changes in DNA…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“One thing is clear: cancer is not unique to humans. And neither is it a product of our modern times.”

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

“My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like…

— Octavia Butler

“I know not what you mean by malignants. We are all malignants to God.”

— Charles II

“That this seemingly simple mechanism—cell growth without barriers—can lie at the heart of this grotesque and multifaceted illness is a testament to the unfathomable…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee