Ageing Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite…

— Stephen J. Dubner

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

“In 2010, about six hundred thousand Americans, and more than 7 million humans around the world, will die of cancer. In the United States,…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

More people live off cancer than die from it.

— Deepak Chopra

The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging.

— Laurie Glimcher

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

If I were going to put my money on it, I would bet that by 2050—hopefully earlier—we’ll have found that more than 80 percent…

— Paul W. Ewald

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

— Sheryl Crow

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

— Catherine Hardwicke