"I had seen cancer at a more cellular……" — Siddhartha Mukherjee
"I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time."
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41 Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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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