It Was Disney World Fused With Cancerland.

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?

It Is Hard To Look At The Tumor And Not Come Away With The Feeling That One Has Encountered A Powerful Monster In Its Infancy

Sandeep Jauhar’s Doctored Is A Passionate And Necessary Book That Asks Difficult Questions About The Future Of Medicine. The Narrative Is Gripping, And The Writing Is Marvelous. But It Was The Gravity Of The Problem—so Movingly Told—that Grabbed And Kept My Attention Throughout This Remarkable Work.

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.

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.