“The decrease in incidents of death from cancer is largely attributable to new medicines or therapeutics. Perhaps a third is attributable to changing our environment, and that includes of course smoking which I believe accounted for probably 20 percent of deaths from, certainly from lung cancer, more than that from lung cancer, but from cancer overall.” BelieveCoursesI BelieveEnvironmentPercentThirdsMedicineCancerSmokingLungsIncidentsOur EnvironmentDecreaseLung Cancer Author:Laurie Glimcher
“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 to identify that specific piece of DNA that has become mutated and that is driving cancer growth.” WantAbleGrowthPiecesUniqueMedicineCancerDrivingDnaPrecisionProfileDivingTumors Author:Laurie Glimcher
“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 combination therapies.” WayNeedsRememberMedicineCancerAidsOne WayCombinationTherapyProvenHivPrecisionHiv Aids Author:Laurie Glimcher
