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

In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.

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

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.

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

Cell culture is a little like gardening. You sit and you look at cells, and then you see something and say, 'You know, that doesn't look right'.

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