I Left Delhi In 1989 And Remember

I Had Seen Cancer At A More Cellular Level As A Researcher. The First Time I Entered The Cancer Ward, My First Instinct Was To Withdraw From What Was Going On - The Complexity, The Death. It Was A Very Bleak Time.

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'.

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

It Felt—nearly Twenty-five Hundred Years After Hippocrates Had Naively Coined The Overarching Term Karkinos—that Modern Oncology Was Hardly Any More Sophisticated In Its Taxonomy Of Cancer.

In 2005, A Man Diagnosed With Multiple Myeloma Asked Me If He Would Be Alive To Watch His Daughter Graduate From High School In A Few Months. In 2009, Bound To A Wheelchair, He Watched His Daughter Graduate From College. The Wheelchair Had Nothing To Do With His Cancer. The Man Had Fallen Down While Coaching His Youngest Son's Baseball Team.