Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Ideas, Interesting

• 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.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Song, Cancer, Heart

• 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.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Important, Age

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