Alana Stewart Quotes

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 don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases.

The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.

I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.

There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

We can end cancer as we know it.

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

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

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.

I want to fight and win the war on cancer.

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur.

Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.

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

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

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

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.