I Began Wondering, Can One Really Write

In The Laboratory, We Call This The Six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer Rule: You Can Ask Any Biological Question, No Matter How Seemingly Distant-what Makes The Heart Fail, Or Why Worms Age, Or Even How Birds Learn Songs-and You Will End Up, In Fewer Than Six Genetic Steps, Connecting With A Proto-oncogene Or Tumor Suppressor.

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?

When You Immerse Yourself In Medicine You Realise That Hope Is Not Absolute. It's Not That Simple.

Down To Their Innate Molecular Core, Cancer Cells Are Hyperactive, Survival-endowed, Scrappy, Fecund, Inventive Copies Of Ourselves.

If The History Of Medicine Is Told Through The Stories Of Doctors, It Is Because Their Contributions Stand In Place Of The More Substantive Heroism Of Their Patients.