"I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically,……" — Siddhartha Mukherjee
"I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness."
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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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