History repeats, but science reverberates.

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

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.

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

History repeats, but science reverberates.

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.

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