All Cancers Are Alike But They Are

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.

I Am A Scientist And I Am A Physician. So I Write Papers.

Good Physicians Are Rarely Dispassionate. They Agonize And Self-doubt Over Patients.

It Remains An Astonishing, Disturbing Fact That In America - A Nation Where Nearly Every New Drug Is Subjected To Rigorous Scrutiny As A Potential Carcinogen, And Even The Bare Hint Of A Substance's Link To Cancer Ignites A Firestorm Of Public Hysteria And Media Anxiety - One Of The Most Potent And Common Carcinogens Known To Humans Can Be Freely Bought And Sold At Every Corner Store For A Few Dollars.

I Left Delhi In 1989 And Remember Very Little Of How Life Used To Be Then. Increasingly, In My Recent Visits To Delhi, I've Started To Realize That The City Has Become Intellectually Very Lively. It Makes Me Want To Discover The City Over And Over Again.