What tuberculosis was to the 19th century, cancer is to the 20th; an insidious, malevolent force that frightens people beyond all reason far more than, say, diabetes or high blood pressure.

• 如19世纪的肺结核，20世纪的癌症尤如潜在的恶毒力量比糖尿病和高血压更使人不理智的害怕。