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

History repeats, but science reverberates.

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.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

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

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

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.