Indian - Scientist | 1970 -
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.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.'
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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.
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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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'.
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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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What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a moment of hope and expectation and concern.
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Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
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