Cancer Quote by Jean Tirole

“doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

— Michael Lewis

“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

“like most cancer survivors, lived with uncertainty.”

— John Green

“results are shocking. More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer.”

— Daniel Kahneman

What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.

— Tom Brokaw

“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

“Most would live into adulthood, as Patrick had. (Which meant there was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat…

— John Green

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

— William Osler

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker”

— Amanda Lovelace

“For, medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid…

— Marcel Proust

“The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.”

— Marcel Proust