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I Had Seen Cancer At A More Cellular Level As A Researcher. The First Time I Entered The Cancer Ward, My First Instinct Was To Withdraw From What Was Going On - The Complexity, The Death. It Was A Very Bleak Time.

When You Immerse Yourself In Medicine You Realise That Hope Is Not Absolute. It's Not That Simple.

Cancer's Life Is A Recapitulation Of The Body's Life, Its Existence A Pathological Mirror Of Our Own. Susan Sontag Warned Against Overburdening An Illness With Metaphors. But This Is Not A Metaphor. Down To Their Innate Molecular Core, Cancer Cells Are Hyperactive, Survival-endowed, Scrappy, Fecund, Inventive Copies Of Ourselves.

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.

I Think The Cardinal Rule Of Learning To Write Is Learning To Read First. I Learned To Write By Learning To Read.