To be born is to begin to die: this is a phrase of affected poet, but also an irrefutable biological fact. In spite of the tragedy of the expression, between one verb and another there is life, much life, which must be satisfied with fullness. About living and about dying and about the disease speaks Manel Esteller Badosa (Sant Boi de Llobregat, 1968), one of the men who know the most about cancer and its mechanisms.

Dr. Esteller, who has just received the National Recruitment Prize 2015, is in an office at the Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (Idibell) at the Duran i Reinals Hospital, a center he directs in this oncological that is scary and necessary. . Why should we fear cancer? He will answer that and dozens of other questions later, since that is the purpose of the report: to place evil in the discourse of hope.