Anne Wojcicki Quotes

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early, they can take steps to avert getting sick.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place!

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

I want to encourage everyone to be proactive with their health and get checked out.

I believe it is better to be prepared for illness than to wait for a cure.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing, simple lifestyle and diet steps, that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Health is not valued till sickness comes

Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

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.

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

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

People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people healthy, too.