Cancer Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell…

— Mark Walport

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

— Rashida Jones

What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

A fundamental premise in cancer therapy is trying to identify how the metabolism of cancer cells differs from normal tissue. When differences are identified,…

— David Perlmutter

If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change…

— Ralph W. Moss

“There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.”

— Philippus Theophrastus

It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets…

— Eva Vertes

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

— Jenna Morasca

“Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed;…

— Robert Berkow

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced……

— Ernst T. Krebs

Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

— Tyler Jacks

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

— Hayley Mills