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

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

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.

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

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

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.