Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

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.

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

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

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

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

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