Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing is marvelous. But it was the gravity of the problem—so movingly told—that grabbed and kept my attention throughout this remarkable work.

History repeats, but science reverberates.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

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

One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.

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.

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.