Quotes About Oncology

#1. 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.

Anna Quindlen

#2. Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.

Alex Berenson

#3. 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.

Robert Atkins

#4. A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

Alexandra Robbins

#5. Fasting before chemotherapy is definitely something that should be implemented in our oncology wards,

Timothy Ferriss

#6. 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.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#7. Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

John Cameron

#8. 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!

Joshua Rush

#9. By acquiring Biovex, we're continuing the transformation of Amgen into a company that supports therapeutic oncology as well as supportive care oncology.

Roger M. Perlmutter

#10. The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#11. The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#12. 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.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#13. 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.

Oxana Chusovitina

#14. If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.

Zach Braff

#15. Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

Andreas Moritz

#16. There's going to be some places where you're treated with respect and dignity and some places where you'd have to be a fool to live, .. So, there will be places where people can get their hair done well and places where they can't.

Dan Savage

#17. They just say words, and what are words but sounds these men shape out of breath, weightless vapors they send into the air of the kitchen to dissipate and die.

Anthony Doerr

#18. True hope has no room for delusion.

Jerome Groopman

#19. Since cancer is an anaerobic growth, enhancing aerobic metabolism in a cancer patient is like shining daylight on a vampire.

Patrick Quillin

#20. We didn't talk. Didn't need to talk.

Sherman Alexie

#21. Everybody who is not awake spiritually is totally identified with and run by their thinking mind - the incessant voice in the head.

Eckhart Tolle

#22. We add to the most ideal course of cancer treatment in light of the one of a kind qualities of a patient's case.

Cancercenter

#23. No one is going to hurt us: I read in his gaze. No one is going to pull us apart.

Krista Ritchie

#24. I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa

Lauren Oliver

#25. The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

Basmah Bint Saud

#26. The Comprehensive Cancer Center has a few stage one and stage two studies in advancement. We effectively take an interest in clinical trials which gives us access to the most up to date medicates that can be utilized for our patients' advantage.

Cancercenter

#27. The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

Andreas Moritz

#28. Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!

Chogyam Trungpa

#29. We trust that coordinating physical and enthusiastic consideration amid tumor treatment is fundamental to effective results.

Cancercenter

#30. The point about words is - the better you use them, the stronger is the thought that wears them.

Frank Delaney

#31. The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Michael Lam