Most Days, I Go Home

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.

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.

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.

Good Physicians Are Rarely Dispassionate. They Agonize And Self-doubt Over Patients.

If The History Of Medicine Is Told Through The Stories Of Doctors, It Is Because Their Contributions Stand In Place Of The More Substantive Heroism Of Their Patients.