Aging Quote by Laurie Glimcher Download Open image “The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.” — Laurie Glimcher ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Cancer Factors Risk
Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35.… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Age itself is a risk for getting cancer. Our cells replicate constantly during our lives. The more times they replicate, the greater the chances… — Ranjana Srivastava 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
One characteristic aspect of ageing is the increased susceptibility to disease, particularly age-related diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer. — Elizabeth Blackburn 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
So many people are affected by cancer, whether you have it, or a family member. — Daniel Jacobs Copy Share Image
Incredibly, nearly 70,000 Young Adults between 15-39 are diagnosed with cancer each year. 10,000 will not survive. This is a very important stat for… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer. — James D. Watson 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
I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer. — 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
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
