Renato Dulbecco Quotes

As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.

In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.

You don't treat cancer - you fight it.

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.

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'

I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.

My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.

I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.

I am happy to join AutoNation in the fight against cancer. This disease hits close to home for me with the loss of my mom in 2009. Raising awareness and finding a cure is really important to me.

Athletes vs Cancer is a foundation that I started in 2008 after I lost my mom to cancer in 2007, and our goal is early detection, preventative screening and just really spreading knowledge about the cancer disease.

As a mother and someone who has lost so many family members to cancer, it is important to me to bring awareness to such important causes.

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions.

Any charity that aids or supports trying to find a cure for cancer is very close to my heart. My mom had cancer multiple times, so it's something that I can relate to.

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

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.