....A chemotherapeutic poison was a poison was a poison, and one did not need to understand a cancer cell to poison it. So, just as a generation of radical surgeons had once shuttered the blinds around itself and pushed the discipline to its terrifying limits, so, too, did a generation of radical chemotherapists. If every dividing cell in the body needed to be obliterated to rid it of cancer, then so be it. It was a conviction that would draw oncology into its darkest hour.
- The Emperor of All Maladies
JESUS CHRIST WHY AM I READING THIS AGAIN
IT WOULD GIVE STEPHEN KING NIGHTMARES
//reads on
"organ bouquets" Mary, mother of God
"In the early days, among the first doctors to encounter and treat AIDS patients were oncologists....the first clinic to be organized for AIDS patients was thus a sarcoma clinic"
OH, THE AIDS EPIDEMIC
BECAUSE THE BOOK WASN'T HEARTBREAKING ENOUGH, SURE
descensus Averno facilis est