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

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

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

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'.

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

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

Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.