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Cancers of all types among women are increasing -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Cancers of all types among women are increasing. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs. -- Eric Topol
Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers. -- Joel Fuhrman
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. -- Bernard Levin
Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers. -- Chris Kilham
My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related. -- Loni Anderson
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. -- Eric Topol
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues. -- Marianne Williamson
Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages. -- Jane Green
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise. -- Harold E. Varmus
Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process. -- Harald zur Hausen
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney? -- Dick Cavett
If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early. -- Ann Romney
The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation. -- Anthony Fauci
When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it tries to get rid of you, and it usually activates the cancers in perimenopause. -- Suzanne Somers
We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
Combine anti-cancer foods to maximize protection against all cancers: A number of plant foods are associated with lower risk of cancers, and substances contained in these foods display anti-cancer or immune-boosting properties. -- Joel Fuhrman
Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs. -- Harold E. Varmus
It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix. -- Harald zur Hausen
The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous. -- Elizabeth Blackburn
I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer. -- Robert H. Schuller
I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers. -- Harold E. Varmus
I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.' -- Sam Taylor-Wood
When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers. -- Hamilton Jordan
All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy. -- Richard Doll
...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford. -- Paul Harvey
The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures. -- Ray Comfort
I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers. -- Fran Drescher
Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story. -- Deepak Chopra
The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer. --
I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers. -- Tony Windsor
I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that. -- Robert Winston
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born. -- Yann Martel
Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup. -- Deroy Murdock
According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors. -- Dharma Singh Khalsa
I know and know of more than a few MTF's (male-to-female trannies) who've developed strange cancers. Myself, I've got a nice little case of Chronic Lymphocitic Leukemia (CLL). -- Kate Bornstein
Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers. -- Charles W. Pickering
The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation. -- Anthony S. Fauci
Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma. -- Ralph W. Moss
African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well. -- Frank C. Garland

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