“A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.” WayKindMightTurnsTermChangedApproachTreatsCancerBreastsInternalsBreast CancerAnatomyResemblanceReorganizationGastric Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.” ThinkingWayTodayPainLastsCenturyChangedAmountTreatsPatientCancerEnormousReliefProvidingPhysiciansPsychicsSolacePain ReliefTreating Patients Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee
“It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.” LongDrugPercentTreatsPatientCancerAppropriateDiagnosisCancer Patients Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.” PeopleGovernmentPoliticalProcessMoralFailingTreatsDemocraticCancerCorruptionRoutineCynicismWrongdoingDemocratic Government Author:Edward Brooke
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“You never want to be the worst bowler of the group-because then everyone treats you like you have cancer. "You can do it! We're praying for you." The advice starts. "Use a heavier ball." "Keep your arm straight." "You should get a vasectomy." If you're really bad at bowling like me, they'll ask if want the bumpers up. Not that bowling is that complex anyway. "You want the bumpers? We can get rid of the pins. Why don't you take this coloring book and sit in the corner?"” IfsWantShouldBookUseFunnyAsksCan DoComedyGroupsWorstAdviceLike YouArmsPrayingTreatsBallsComplexesCancerCornersLike MeYou Can Do ItPinsBowlingBumperBowlersPraying For YouVasectomy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“AZT was never meant to treat HIV. It was meant to treat cancer and, when it was discovered to be toxic, the drug companies stopped clinic trials of the drug because it was so toxic. Is this drug really one we want to use?” WantUseCompanyDrugTreatsCancerTrialsToxicHivClinicDrug Companies Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
“If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.” IfsTryingLooksLittlesShowsEyeLike YouMembersTreatsCancerExtrasBreastsBreast CancerFamily MembersBreast Cancer InspirationSad Eyes Author:Hoda Kotb
“I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.” IfsThinkingI CanDoneDeserveTreatsLuckAtheistCancerStrikesDiagnosisBad LuckWhy MeCancer Diagnosis Author:Iain Banks
“Sahaja Yoga has cured people from cancer, from all kinds of diseases which they call incurable. How? Just by awakening the Kundalini. Sahaja Yogis don't go to any doctor, they had become doctors without studying Medicine. They treat the basics. While science is analysis, like a tree has got some leaves and are showing the symptoms of some disease they try to treat the leaves. But if you have to treat the leaves, you cannot do any justice, you have to go to the roots and treat the sap! And that is how - that is the only way you can treat the tree.” PeopleIfsWayLoveTryingKindWisdomSpiritJusticeStudyMeditationTreeDiseaseYogaRootsDoctorsTreatsMedicineCancerAwakeningAll KindsAnalysisWellnessSymptomsBasicsSapYogiSahaja Yoga Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.” MindHumansBodySufferingHuman BeingsEnvironmentPlanetsElementsTreatsCancerRadiationMind And Body Author:Ornette Coleman