I think when we use ‘stress’, we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
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. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
We don’t know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don’t know what it is. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
There’s a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population – we aren’t dying of other things, so we’re dying of cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee Read Quote
