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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee (born 21 July 1970) is an Indian-American physician, oncologist, and author best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. He studied biology at Stanford University, obtained a D.Phil. from University of Oxford, and an M.D. from Harvard University.

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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, Cells, Down, Mirrors, Pathological

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

Based, Believe, Cancer, Come, India, Researchers

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

Attitude, Cancer, Negative, Pain

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

Cancer, Cells, Core, Fecund, Innate, Survival

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'.

Cells, Culture, Gardening, Look, Sit

In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.

Baseball, Daughter, Cancer, Graduate, Coaching

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.

Stress, Thinking, Trying, Using, Things, Kind

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.

Breast, Cancer, Close, Might, Reorganization, Way

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.

19Th, Cancer, Ideas, Interesting, Tuberculosis

In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical sources of X-rays. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.

Powerful, Couple, Paris, Pierre, Curie, Living

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

Feelings, Hard, Infancy, Monsters, Powerful

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Mind, Needs, Pharmacology, Benefited, Prepared

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, Hidden, Ideas, Imposthume, Refers, Writing

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.

Become, Cities, Discover, Littles, Visits, Want

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

Combination, Discovery, Serendipity, Today

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

Immerse, Medicine, Realising, Simple

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

Self, Doubt, Physicians, Agonize, Patients

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

Cancer, Chaos, Organized

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

Cancer, Moving, Connections, Depression, Ancient

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.

Pain, Cancer, Thinking, Think, Provide

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