There's A Phrase In Shakespeare: He Refers

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.

If There's A Seminal Discovery In Oncology In The Last 20 Years, It's That Idea That Cancer Genes Are Often Mutated Versions Of Normal Genes.

I Think When We Use 'stress', We Are Often Using A Kind Of Dummy Word To Try To Fit Many Different Things Into One Big Category.

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.

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