The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.

And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?

A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

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.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.