Age Quote by Charles Horace Mayo

A tumor often grows silently and doesn't start making itself known until it's pushing on structures or organs or tissues around it in a…

— Caterina Scorsone

The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need…

— Ken Kercheval

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they…

— Anonymous

I had a PET scan, and it was cleared. Not one cell of cancer after three rounds of chemo. But I still had seven…

— Abby Lee Miller

“The secret to battling cancer, then, is to find means to prevent these mutations from occurring in susceptible cells, or to find means to…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

— Eric Topol

Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

— Harold E. Varmus

Chemotherapy and radiation have side effects, and they can cause secondary cancers.

— Margaret Cuomo

We all know that the earlier cancer is detected the more successful treatment will be, and my cancer had spread to my ribs and…

— Mazie Hirono

Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.

— Anonymous

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

— Harold E. Varmus