Best quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee on Disease

Checkout quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee on Disease

• ‟ There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

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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.

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• ‟ Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.

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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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• ‟ Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.

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• ‟ The gene that enables birds to learn songs can become cancer-causing. There is no normal physiological process that can't be bastardized by the disease.

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