Stephen J. Dubner Quotes

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.

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.

In my experience with cancer, I was one of the lucky ones: diagnosed and treated by a qualified team of professionals as well as benefiting from the advancements in cancer research.

We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.

I didn't have chemo.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.

One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.

While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

We could conquer cancer if we really wanted to.

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

You know, chemo and radiation is a very tough customer. It does so much good, but it also does a lot of damage.