Age Quote by Harold E. Varmus Download Open image “Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.” — Harold E. Varmus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Cancer Causes Heredity Main Rays Tobacco Viruses
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
“Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words,… — Travis Christofferson Copy Share Image
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood. — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
Throughout the world, cancer affects the rich and poor, especially where cigarette smoking is rampant. — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination… — Dharma Singh Khalsa Copy Share Image
There are clearly environmental factors that can decrease the incidence and death from cancer. I would still say though that the majority of cancers… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells. — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
When we think about lung cancer, the biggest environmental factor is without doubt smoking. Um, that would make a huge impact and has made… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
One third of all of our cancers are from tobacco. It's one of the big killers in America and more than half of our kids still have environmental tobacco smoke exposure when environmental tobacco smoke is known to be associated with sudden infant death syndrome, with ear infections, respiratory infections and the rest. If we had to pick something to… — Richard Jackson Copy Share
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior,… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
