Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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You know, you don't go back and write your book again.
But to me what was interesting is, you know, cancer, you couldn't do that because history was being made as we live.
So this was a lived history.
And so I had to update it in order to capture what had happened since 2010.
And so much had happened in prevention, in detection, and in treatment that I had to almost write an addendum or a new set of chapters.
It's vastly different.
People have a visceral reaction to that word.
I'll be caught in the wards.
I'll be throwing up.
I'll have a vomit basin next to me.
I'll lose my hair.
My body will shrink.
That's not true today.
I mean, of course, there's still some chemotherapies that we still use that are sort of chemotherapies of olden days.
Yes.
But there are lots more new therapies where you don't have all these side effects.
You still have some, but you don't have these severe side effects.
There's a whole new world of therapy that has emerged even in the last 15 years.
Well, it's a disease in which the disease typically is a disease of a single cell that is no longer able to respond to signals that tell it to stop growing.
So just to give you an example, when you cut your hand and you have a wound, the wound cells start growing back into the wound, and then they stop growing.
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