"I began wondering, can one really write a……" — Siddhartha Mukherjee
"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?"
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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…
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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…
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In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate…
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It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a…
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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…
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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…
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