Cancer-screening Quote by H. Gilbert Welch

In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very…

— Harold E. Varmus

I really discovered I had thyroid disease by accident. My son was having some health concerns, and as I filled out his patient history…

— Kim Alexis

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

“You've heard it all right. People don't have cancer: They are reported to be battling cancer.”

— Christopher Hitchens

The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number and types…

— Hans Alfred Nieper

“medical students at Harvard made significant errors5 when calculating the probability that a patient had cancer”

— Jean Tirole

A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths of cancer…

— Ted Gup

“My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like…

— Octavia Butler

“Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other…

— John Green

“It’s one thing to get enough evidence to convince yourself, but it’s a whole other matter to produce a demonstration that would be acceptable…

— Mary Roach

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

— Sheryl Crow

Many people tried to find the therapy for cancer, but all failed. And myself, I never expected my research, working on the immune system,…

— Tasuku Honjo