Most Days, I Go Home And I

History Repeats, But Science Reverberates.

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.

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.

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.

There Is A Duality In Recognising What An Incredible Disease It Is - In Terms Of Its Origin, That It Emerges Out Of A Normal Cell. It's A Reminder Of What A Wonderful Thing A Normal Cell Is. In A Very Cold, Scientific Sense, I Think A Cancer Cell Is A Kind Of Biological Marvel.