“People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.” PeopleHeartMightJobsLosesRiskInformationPositionDiseaseFindingsCancerIllnessBreastsBreast CancerHeart Disease Author:Francis Collins
“It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer.... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem” IfsImportantUseProblemFindingsPatientCancerCuresAlternativesTherapyAgain And Again Author:Barry Lynes
“It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.” ThinkingIssuesStudentsAchievementFindingsExcitingCancerCuresGapsClosingAchievement Gap Author:Freeman A. Hrabowski III
“Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.” WorldAsksSpacePovertyFindingsBusyCancerWeatherCuresToo BusyFixingParkingBarbecueWorld PovertyParking Space Author:Richard Dawkins
“Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.” EndsCareNightBedFindingsShotsWake UpDollarsPatientCancerGenuineRecoveryCuresDeniedDevotedExhaustedFluMammogramsPrognosisPreventive Care Author:Jacob M. Appel
“Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.” WayAnimalGoodnessDiseaseFindingsJokesScientistCancerExperimentsTreatmentKillersHumaneHumane Way Author:Carol Leifer
“There's about 100 different cancers in a cancer cell. And so what we're finding out is, they're finding out ways to deal with one or two of the cancers there, with certain medicines. But they don't know why, if you have that cancer and I have that cancer, and I get the therapy and you get it, I don't live and you live. That - they don't know why.” IfsKnowsWayTwoDifferentCertainDealsFindingsMedicineCancerCellsTherapy Author:Joe Biden
“Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.” FightingPassionDevelopmentRight NowDiseaseFindingsResearchCancerMissionsCuresNastyMy PassionResearch And DevelopmentFighting Cancer Author:Judith Hill
“Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.” FeelsMeanDoeCertainEnergyGrowsCasesWiseFeetPlanetsPaperFindingsSummerResourcesStressMental HealthPlantCancerWoodsMedicalFeel GoodSmokePostsFuelRemarkableClothingsMarijuanaStoppingDieselSeizuresBiosRenewable ResourcesDiesel Fuel Author:Jesse Ventura