James D. Watson Quotes

We could conquer cancer if we really wanted to.

We can end cancer as we know it.

So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

I want to fight and win the war on cancer.

I think that research is incredibly important and hopefully one day there will be a cure for cancer. They are making great strides.

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

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.

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.

You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.

It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite some gains made against it, is becoming even more prominent.

What I've been telling people is that the doctors are gaining on cancer very rapidly. It's almost become a chronic disease, like diabetes - something you can treat. It doesn't go away, and you're not well in the sense of being over it, but you go on and live your life.

I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?

We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.

Who the hell is against breast cancer research?