Causes Of Cancer Quotes

#1. In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.

Harold E. Varmus

#2. Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Harold E. Varmus

#3. Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer!

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.

Shelby Harris

#5. Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

Mark Hart

#6. Although cancer is not universally caused by viruses, certain viruses cause particular cancers, such as the human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#7. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting.

Bill Maher

#8. The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.

Christopher Booker

#9. It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.

Peter Andre

#10. It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

Stephen Hawking

#11. We are losing the war on cancer because we are on an incessant search for the impossible-to-find cure, when in fact removing the causes is the only way to win.

Joel Fuhrman

#12. People grow; people grow apart, and cancer ... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

Justin Baldoni

#13. With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease
because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

Susan Sontag

#14. A lot of people are listening and most people believe global warming is a problem and they'd like to see it addressed. But governments and the biggest companies in the world don't want to deal with it like they didn't want to deal with the fact that tobacco causes cancer.

John H Richardson

#15. Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

August Bier

#16. Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.

Francis Collins

#17. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Alan Perlis

#18. Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer,

Michael F. Jacobson

#19. Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

George Carlin

#20. My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

Casey James

#21. Cancer is everybody's cause.

Laura Ziskin

#22. I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.

Kate Del Castillo

#23. As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#24. After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

William J. Clinton

#25. The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

J. Richard Singleton

#26. What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#27. Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.

Joel Fuhrman

#28. You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

George Carlin

#29. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.

Dean Burk

#31. A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#32. Decorum is highly overrated and probably causes cancer.

Jenny Lawson

#33. It is concluded that artificial fluoridation appears to cause or induce about 20-30 excess cancer deaths for every 100,000 persons exposed per year after about 15-20 years.

Dean Burk

#34. Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.

Kate Reardon

#35. Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on ... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

Michael Greger

#36. My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

Renata Adler

#37. In a spiritual sense, a positive attitude may help you get through chemotherapy and surgery and radiation and what have you. But a positive mental attitude does not cure cancer - any more than a negative mental attitude causes cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#38. The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.

James D. Watson