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.

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

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.

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.

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

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

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.