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

Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Book:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

This comprehensive biography delves into the origins, development, and treatment of cancer, offering a historical and scientific perspective on one of the most significant health challenges of our time. more

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Siddhartha Mukherjee

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a distinguished physician and oncologist, born in 1970. He has made substantial contributions to cancer research and has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book 'The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer'. more

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“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.”

Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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Book:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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

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“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.”

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Book:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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“In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical sources of X-rays. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.”

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“I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.”

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“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”

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“Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.”

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Book:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

“Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.”

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“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.”

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Book:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer