Michael Lewis Quotes

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.

Cancer does not discriminate.

I made the choice to have the double mastectomy, and for me it felt like the right choice, and it turned out to be the right choice.

I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

The safest thing to do was get rid of the second breast. I just want to give myself the best chance possible to live.

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

I beat a brain tumor.

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

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

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.

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

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.

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.

I believe pulsed electromagnetism has a role to play in tackling cancer and I will always believe that.

My daughter had cancer in both eyes - and we could save just one.

Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.

Some people live. Some people die.