Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

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 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.

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

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.

I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.

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