All Cancers Are Alike But They Are

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.

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.

Writing Anything As An Expert Is Really Poisonous To The Writing Process, Because You Lose The Quality Of Discovery.

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?

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'.