Cancer Quote by Harald zur Hausen

Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution…

— Harald zur Hausen

In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this…

— Harald zur Hausen

Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our…

— Laurie Glimcher

Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there…

— Paul Davies

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

— Eric Topol

From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they…

— Harold E. Varmus

Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect it very,…

— Michio Kaku

There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one…

— Paul Davies

Actually, as cancers develop in an individual patient, an individual cancer cell might be different - a little bit different - from the cell…

— Tyler Jacks

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

“Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.”

— Mary Burton