Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjeeis an Indian-born American physician, scientist, and writer best known for his 2010 book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was the basis of a 2015 film documentary, Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies, by Ken Burns for PBS Television. It was named one of the 100 most influential books written in English since 1923 by the magazine Time and one of the 100...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionScientist
CountryIndia
link seems
We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.
ageing major overall rising trend
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.
design eradicate laboratory
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
self doubt physicians
Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
cancer unique way
All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
repeating-history repeats
History repeats, but science reverberates.
daughter baseball cancer
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.
cancer years taxonomy
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.
pain attitude cancer
A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
cancer chaos organized
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
home feels
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.
cancer years ideas
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.
mind needs pharmacology
Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
cancer writing ideas
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'.