Siddhartha Mukherjee : (4)

" I’m human, we all are – all doctors are – and grieving is a natural part of medicine. As a doctor, grieving is a natural part of medicine. If you deny that, again, you’d get into this trap of curing and victory. I think grief is very important. " - Siddhartha Mukherjee

" I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. " - Siddhartha Mukherjee

" There’s a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population – we aren’t dying of other things, so we’re dying of cancer. " - Siddhartha Mukherjee

" 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. " - Siddhartha Mukherjee