Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. Siddhartha Mukherjee dayebullientfeel Change image and share on social
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
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee anatomyapproachbreast 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
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
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
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee bloodbreastcancer Change image and 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
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee cancerchromosomecorrupt share on social
