Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.”

“I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?”

“What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's life that is so hyper-acute, and not just because they're medically ill. It's also a moment of hope and expectation and concern.”

“Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.”