Herbie Mann Quotes

Who the hell is against breast cancer research?

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.

My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result - the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation - is one of the nation's largest non-profits, and one of the most successful triumphs in public health marketing and changing health habits.

I am passionate about talking to women about their breast health.

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

I think if we can prevent a fatal disease, we should.

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

The gay community has taken care of their issues and problems in terms of HIV/AIDS. They have done an incredible job. We as heterosexuals need to learn from the gay community because they have rallied together. They have sent a lot of information out there. They go get tested.

There are two things that I put my focus on. One is the fight against AIDS and finding a cure. The other is human rights.

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

C. Everett 'Chic' Koop became U.S. Surgeon General under President Reagan. He was a world renowned pediatric surgeon who had a tumultuous Senate confirmation process due to partisanship. Chic took office in January 1982, a time of 'tobacco wars' and a new and evolving terrifying disease that we ultimately came to know as AIDS.

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

We are fighting a deadly disease. We are not fighting the people who have that disease. Homosexuality does not produce AIDS.