I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.
Siddhartha MukherjeeProbably 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.
Siddhartha MukherjeeIt feltโnearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinosโthat modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee