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Our one-way ticket into ‘the kingdom of cancer’

By: Eastern Eye Staff

by AMIT ROY PREVENTION AS IMPORTANT AS CURE, SAYS CANCER EXPERT AND AUTHOR WHEN oncologist and author Siddhartha Mukherjee gave a talk last week on the subject of cancer at the Francis Crick In­stitute in London, the chairman of the Indian pharma giant Cip­la, Yusuf Hamied, asked a cou­ple of pertinent questions: What is the role of luck in get­ting cancer? And why do children get cancer? Turning to Eastern Eye, Dr Hamied, whose firm is always on the lookout for the latest drugs for cancer, said: “It has to be genetic.” Mukherjee’s talk was called: Cancer’s Future Anxieties: Genes, Risks…

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