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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.

Down To Their Innate Molecular Core, Cancer Cells Are Hyperactive, Survival-endowed, Scrappy, Fecund, Inventive Copies Of Ourselves.

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.

Could Your Medicine Be A Cell, Not A Pill? Could Your Medicine Be An Organ That's Created Outside The Body? Could Your Medicine Be An Environment?

I Believe The Biggest Breakthroughs On Cancer Could Come From Brilliant Researchers Based In India.