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Every era casts cancer in its own image.
History repeats, but science reverberates.
It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.
All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.
It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.
Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?
This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.
The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.
Robert Sandler is a child who died when he was three years old, and he is a child who was the first child that we know of to be treated with chemotherapy.
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.
We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.
We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.
If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.
A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.
There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer.
I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.
Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.
One day, I had a patient who was going through chemotherapy who came to me and said, 'I'm going to go on with what I'm doing, but I need you to tell me what it is that I'm fighting.'
Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.
Because I work on leukemia, the image of cancer I carry in my mind is that of blood. I imagine that doctors who work on breast cancer or pancreatic cancer have very different visualizations.
My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
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 comes as a big challenge.
The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.
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.
Nearly every one of the genes that turns out to be a key player in cancer has a vital role in the normal physiology of an organism. The genes that enable our brains and blood cells to develop are implicated in cancer.
Unlike other diseases, the vulnerability to cancer lies in ourselves. We always thought of disease as exogenous, but research into cancer has turned that idea on its head - as long as we live, grow, age, there will be cancer.
A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.