Quotes About Oncology

The idea that cancer genes are sitting inside each and every one of our chromosomes, just waiting to be corrupted or inactivated and thereby unleashing cancer, is, of course, one of the seminal ideas of oncology.

Because I work on leukemia, the image of cancer I carry in my mind is that of blood. I imagine that doctors who work on breast cancer or pancreatic cancer have very different visualizations.

Isolated in the oncology ward, I began to think about my dream to become a writer.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

and it has confirmed the importance of paying attention to how our emotions may affect the course of cancer.

In a domain like oncology, two things are continually changing: conventional treatments and our knowledge of what each of us can do individually to reinforce the effect of these treatments. If the circumstances change, the survival curve changes too.

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We allow for complexity, and therefore make accommodations for disagreement and its patient resolution, in most of the big areas of life: international trade, immigration, oncology . . . But when it comes to domestic existence, we tend to make a fateful presumption of ease, which in turn inspires in us a tense aversion to protracted negotiation. We would think it peculiar indeed to devote a two-day

Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.

Ninety-seven percent of the time, chemotherapy does not work and continues to be used only for one reason—doctors and pharmaceutical companies make money from it. That's the only reason chemotherapy

Cristina Sanchez of Complutense University of Madrid has found that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana, kills cancer cells without damaging healthy cells.

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Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

Chemotherapy and radiation have side effects, and they can cause secondary cancers.

Every year around Christmas and Thanksgiving, I buy a bunch of toys for the sick children in the oncology center at the St. Louis Children's Hospital. I really love giving back and putting a smile on their faces, especially during the holidays.

That was one of the reasons why Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center decided to work with Watson—to make widely available the level of knowledge of the hospital's best oncologists to the world at large.

Fasting before chemotherapy is definitely something that should be implemented in our oncology wards,

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there are already so many on the waiting lists.

As a college student, my thinking was influenced by the work of O. Carl Simonton, the oncologist who taught people to use visualization to boost their immune system in order to fight cancer. In medical school, I became trained in the use of medical hypnosis and began to see the powerful effect it can have on healing the body.

Over the last decade, the standard criteria for relapse, or biochemical failure, after radiation has been the consensus definition of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

chemotherapy does not work for the majority of cancers.' And