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

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

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.

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'.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

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