Cell Culture Is A Little Like Gardening.

A Breast Cancer Might Turn Out To Have A Close Resemblance To A Gastric Cancer. And This Kind Of Reorganization Of Cancer In Terms Of Its Internal Genetic Anatomy Has Really Changed The Way We Treat And Approach Cancer In General.

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?

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.

There Is A Very Moving And Ancient Connection Between Cancer And Depression.

Most Discoveries Even Today Are A Combination Of Serendipity And Of Searching.