Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes

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

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Self, Doubt, Physicians

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• History repeats, but science reverberates.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Repeating History, Repeats

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

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  Doctors, Medicine, Heroism

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

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  Cancer, Unique, Way

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

  "Siddhartha Mukherjee: 'A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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

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  Discovery, Serendipity, Today

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

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  Cancer, Cells, Survival

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Cancer, Mirrors, Cells

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Simple, Medicine, Realising

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

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  Cancer, Chaos, Organized

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Pain, Cancer, Thinking

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• 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

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  Powerful, Feelings, Monsters

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Daughter, Cancer

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Pain, Attitude, Cancer

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

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  Summer, Two, Coincidence

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

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  Cancer, Thinking, Cells

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Diversity, Challenges

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• It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.

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  Cancer, Media, Hysteria

  "New Warning Labels: Ruining Smokers’ Days?" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. June 21, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Couple, Powerful, Paris

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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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  Cancer, Important, Age

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• 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.

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  Cancer, Discovery, Years

  "An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2010.

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

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  Cancer, Moving, Connections

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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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  Cancer, Writing, Character

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

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  Mind, Needs, Pharmacology

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• This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

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  Fascination, Population, Medical

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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