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“As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self.”

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Book:Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“If your loved one is done fighting, respect that, let them go.”

Truth Support Struggle Cancer Illness Wellness Insightful Diagnosis Cancer Diagnosis Oncology

Book:Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“The word cure is often misconstrued as remission and, conversely, remission is often thought to mean cure. Unfortunately, those words are mutually exclusive and can be painful when misunderstood or misused.”

Support Cancer Insight Wellness Treatment Diagnosis Cancer Diagnosis Oncology

Book:Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“Cancer can change your body, and it can surely take your body away, but it can't have your spirit.”

Support Cancer Insight Wellness Treatment Diagnosis Cancer Diagnosis Oncology

Book:Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“I am angry that everyone else gets to have a normal life.”

Truth Support Struggle Cancer Illness Wellness Diagnosis Cancer Diagnosis Oncology

Book:Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

Source: Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.”

Ifs Years Ideas Lasts Normal Discovery Cancer Versions Genes Oncology

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.”

Children Waiting Chance Lists Russia Uzbekistan Oncology

Author:Oksana Chusovitina

“A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment”

“Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.”

Made Enough Choices Pay Company Dying Sitting Paid Wings Killing Addiction Flight Smoke Hospitals Tobacco Airline Smokers Personal Choice Oncology

Author:Anna Quindlen

“There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo.”

Interest Too Much Majors Cancer Available Cures Wellness Conspiracy Centre Status Quo Oncology

Author:Robert Atkins

“I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!”

Thinking Want Should Law Parent Interest Subjects Politician Arguing Oncology

Author:Joshua Rush

“It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.”

Years Felt Term Five Modern Hundred Twenties Cancer Sophisticated Twenty Five Taxonomy Oncology

Book:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer