All Cancers Are Alike But They Are

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.

Postwar U.s. Was The World's Leader In Science And Technology. The Investment In Science Research Was Staggering.

I Wanted To Explore Cancer Not Just Biologically, But Metaphorically. The Idea That Tuberculosis In The 19th Century Possessed The Same Kind Of Frightening And Decaying Quality Was Very Interesting To Me, And It Seemed That One Could Explore The Idea That Every Age Defined Its Own Illness.

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

Cancer Has Enormous Diversity And Behaves Differently: It's Highly Mutable, The Evolutionary Principles Are Very Complicated And Often Its Capacity To Be Constantly Mystifying Comes As A Big Challenge.