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.
Siddhartha MukherjeeIt is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy
Siddhartha MukherjeeWhen you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
Siddhartha MukherjeeCancer'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.
Siddhartha Mukherjee