Age Quote by Hardin B. Jones

More than 40 years after the war on cancer was declared by President Richard Nixon in 1971, we are not much closer to preventing…

— Margaret Cuomo

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

The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very…

— John Cairns

Cancer has been the No. 1 cause of death during the last half-century. The trend is getting even worse as the average life span increases.

— Tasuku Honjo

“cancer was essentially unheard of in populations eating their traditional diets. Even the mid-Victorian English did not suffer greatly from cancer (Figure 16.7 on…

— Tim Noakes

There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I want cancer rates to fall.

— Nicola Roberts

A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the…

— Walter E. Williams

When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10…

— Marianne Williamson

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

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year…

— Ike Skelton