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.

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

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

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

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

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

It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.