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Siddhartha Mukherjee
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Indian Scientist
Born: 1970
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In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed 'home oxygen', but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no 'home.' Siddhartha Mukherjee
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I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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'. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
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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. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
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I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer Brilliant Believe India Could Come Biggest Breakthroughs Researchers Based
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
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Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Good Rarely Physicians Over Self-Doubt Patients Dispassionate Agonize
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
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Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Today Combination Most Discoveries Serendipity Even Searching
The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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It turns out that the very genes that turn on in cancer cells perform vital functions in normal cells. In other words, the very genes that allow our embryos to grow or our brains to grow, our bodies to grow, if you mutate them, if you distort them, then you unleash cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Unlike other diseases, the vulnerability to cancer lies in ourselves. We always thought of disease as exogenous, but research into cancer has turned that idea on its head - as long as we live, grow, age, there will be cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Nearly every one of the genes that turns out to be a key player in cancer has a vital role in the normal physiology of an organism. The genes that enable our brains and blood cells to develop are implicated in cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated genes. You could be nihilistic and say, 'Oh, God, we'll never be able to tackle this!' But there are deep, systematic, organizational principles at work in all that diversity. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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