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A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
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I am a scientist and I am a physician. So I write papers.
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The God of Worms had evidently left tiny loopholes of chance in the worm's design, but He still wouldn't throw dice.
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It was, I suspected, not the first time that a patient had consoled a doctor about the ineffectuality of his discipline.
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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.
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Cancer, perhaps, is an ultimate perversion of genetics - a genome that becomes pathologically obsessed with replicating itself. The
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Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
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All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
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God is in no hurry, so why should I be?"), Griffith
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Soot is a mixture of chemicals that would eventually be found to contain several carcinogens.
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Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.
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(The name vincristine comes from vinca, the Latin word for "bind.")
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Great science emerges out of great contradiction.
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Leukemia was a malignant proliferation of white cells in the blood. It was cancer in a molten, liquid form.
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A major hindrance to cancer effort has been a chronic, severe shortage of funds - a situation that is not generally recognized.
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An Irish surgeon, Denis Burkitt, discovered an aggressive form of lymphoma - now called Burkitt's lymphoma -
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The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.
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Good physicians are rarely dispassionate. They agonize and self-doubt over patients.
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Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
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Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work.
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The (cancer) cells, technically speaking, are immortals. The woman from whose body they were once taken has been dead for thirty years
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Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.
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You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors? Exchanges
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Natures and features last until the grave
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And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?
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It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
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Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
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Seek simplicity, but distrust it," Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once advised his students. Dobzhansky
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The approach required more persistence than imagination, but it produced remarkable results.
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The dinosaurs who studied dinosaurs would soon become extinct in their own right. Watson
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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
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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.
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If we didn't kill the tumor, we killed the patient. - William Moloney on the early days of chemotherapy
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It's easy to make perfect decisions with perfect information. Medicine asks you to make perfect decisions with imperfect information.
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is, in truth, a variety of diseases
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Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?
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Is medicine a science?
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I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
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A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering -
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There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
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Prostate cancer represents a full third of all cancer incidence in men - sixfold that of leukemia and lymphoma.
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Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own.
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A Pap smear would give a woman a chance to receive preventive care [and] greatly decrease the likelihood of her ever developing cancer.
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In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. - Robert Nisbet
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When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.
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Most of the selected essays share a common thread: They describe how science happens.
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Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.
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Memories sharpen the past; it is reality that decays.
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If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.
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Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.
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If we, as a species, are the ultimate product of Darwinian selection, then so, too, is this incredible disease that lurks inside us.
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A model is a lie that helps you see the truth.
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What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
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Our encounter with cancer has rounded us off; it has smoothed and polished us like river rocks.
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Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
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Every era casts cancer in its own image.
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I had a novice's hunger for history, but also a novice's inability to envision it.
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This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science:
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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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Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced
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BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer.
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Technological innovations do not define a science; they merely prove that medicine is scientific - i.e.,
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In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher
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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.
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Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. - William Castle, describing leukemia in 1950
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Is there something I can do to kill the cancer germ? Can the rooms be fumigated ... ? Should I give up my lease and move out?
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Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves.
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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'.
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Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell.
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The discipline of medicine concerns the manipulation of knowledge under uncertainty.
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The very effect of X-rays killing rapidly dividing cells - DNA damage - also created cancer-causing mutations in genes.
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History repeats, but science reverberates.
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It is the impulse of science to try to understand nature, and the impulse of technology to try to manipulate it.
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Second, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes typically lie at the hubs of cellular signaling pathways.
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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.
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Over a man's life, his semen grew into a mobile library of every part of the body - a condensed distillate of the self. This
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Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.
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It is not what you have," as a certain Brazilian samba instructor once told me, "it is what you do with it.
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One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
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The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946
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Normal cells are identically normal; malignant cells become unhappily malignant in unique ways.
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How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain?
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Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
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In China, lung cancer is already a leading cause of death attributable to smoking in men.
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Science begins with counting. To understand a phenomenon, a scientist must first describe it; to describe it objectively, he must first measure it.
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The revolution in cancer research can be summed up in a single sentence: cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease. - Bert Vogelstein
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Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. ...
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In God we trust," he brusquely told a journalist. "All others [must] have data.
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