Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system. Siddhartha Mukherjee cancercellcomplex Change image and share on social
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee citydelhidiscover share on social
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee behavebigcancer share on social
If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated genes. You could be nihilistic and say, 'Oh, God, we'll never be able to tackle this!' But there are deep, systematic, organizational principles at work in all that diversity. Siddhartha Mukherjee breastcancerdeep share on social
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 bastardizebirdcancer Change image and share on social
We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species. Siddhartha Mukherjee amountattackbillion share on social
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee acuteconcernexpectation share on social
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee activitydehumaniseeffect Change image and share on social
The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past. Siddhartha Mukherjee answerdeeplydiscipline share on social
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.' Siddhartha Mukherjee chemotherapydayfight Change image and share on social