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

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

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.

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

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

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