Cancer Quote by Siddhartha 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

“Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior,…

— Harold E. Varmus

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

— Harold E. Varmus

Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in…

— Paul Davies

“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, like any other illness, is a bore.

— Alan Bennett

Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there…

— Paul Davies

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its…

— Harold E. Varmus

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing…

— Wayne Dyer

“Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.”

— Mary Burton