Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.
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Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.
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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.
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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We don't know why, but pancreatic cancer has a very interesting physiological link to depression. There seems to be a deep link, and we don't know what it is.
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What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
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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.
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Robert Sandler is a child who died when he was three years old, and he is a child who was the first child that we know of to be treated with chemotherapy.
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I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.
