Robert Atkins Quotes

We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

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.

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

I have people that have died from cancer and friends that are dealing with cancer.

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

I didn't say a pulsed electro-magnetic field cures cancer. I don't believe it does. All I said is that it will help tackle cancer.

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

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.

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

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.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

Cancer is not for sissies.

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

Cancer research is a growth industry.

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

Incredibly, nearly 70,000 Young Adults between 15-39 are diagnosed with cancer each year. 10,000 will not survive. This is a very important stat for me, because I fall in this category. I am one of these statistics. Unlike every other age group, there has been no improvement in the 5-year survival of young adults in 30 years. That means many young adults have the same chance of getting cancer and dying from it as they did in the 1970's. This is not OK.

Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.