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  • 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.

    Cancer  
  • 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.

    Cancer  
    Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.155, Simon and Schuster
  • It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.

    Cancer  
    "New Warning Labels: Ruining Smokers’ Days?" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. June 21, 2011.
  • Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

    Cancer  
    Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.366, Simon and Schuster
  • One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

    Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
  • Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

  • A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

    Cancer  
    Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.
  • 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.

    Cancer  
    "An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2010.
  • 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?

  • I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

  • Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.

  • This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

    Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
  • I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

    "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.
  • 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.

    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.

    Cancer  
  • 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  
  • When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

  • 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.

  • Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

    Cancer  
    Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster
  • Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

    "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.
  • 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'.

  • Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

  • Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

    Cancer  
    Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster
  • I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

    Cancer  
  • 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.

    Cancer  
  • There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

  • I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

  • It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

    Cancer  
    Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
  • I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

    Cancer  
  • 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?

    Cancer  
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