Cancer Quote by Laurie Glimcher Download Open image “I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.” — Laurie Glimcher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cancer Disease Focus Thinking
We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it. — David Andrew Sinclair Copy Share Image
You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Why have we settled for a medical system that allows cancer to be recast as a chronic and tolerable disease rather than one we… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer. — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there… — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place. — David Agus Copy Share Image
Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it. — Joel Fuhrman Copy Share Image
I think that the marriage of academic medical centers and academicians with the private sector is a very, is a marriage made in heaven… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
I think there's a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with the public.… — Laurie Glimcher 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
Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it's proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you're going to need… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T lymphocytes are… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer. — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When people go get chemo, they're not injecting themselves with will - I have lost various loved ones to cancer, and I certainly don't… — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image