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

I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

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.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

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.

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