I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

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.

Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

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

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