[Blacks] have twice the rates of prostate cancer death as Caucasian men, ... For reasons we don't know, it also starts at a younger age in African-American men. |
Consistently it's been found that women who drink more than one drink a day have about a 20 percent higher risk for breast cancer than women who do not drink. |
He's hilarious. I like the one where he's in a woman's kitchen with his face smeared with food and the doctors come and chase him down. |
If you identify a population at risk for death, it's much easier to get them to change their behavior -- both to never start smoking in the beginning and to stop if they are smoking and have this high-risk gene. |
In the long run, it's very clear that we will discover how to cure cancer, ... It's just a question of time and a question of complete understanding. This is a major step in that direction. |
It turns out that a woman's chance of being cured is 30 times greater than having a fatal complication or side effect from taking the drug, ... So if the woman takes the drug, her rate of benefit compared to risk is 30 to one. |
It's amazing that it's as active in the blast crisis as it is, ... Essentially for all practical purposes that disease is basically untreatable. It was completely unexpected in my mind. It's possible that, if combined with chemotherapy, we may see even better responses. |
The FDA could legitimately speed up approval of new drugs as they become available because people are dying and we want to get the drugs available as fast as possible, |
The FDA could legitimately speed up approval of new drugs as they become available because people are dying and we want to get the drugs available as fast as possible. |
The most fundamental problem we're dealing with is we don't know the cause of breast cancer. But we will find out. |
There's increasing ... data that says if men get early detection for prostate cancer, the death rate in that population goes down. |
This is a drug that controls cancer with almost no side effects. So, for us in the world of oncology to have that is a huge breakthrough. It's a great drug, a great new discovery. |
We were doing major radical surgery as standard treatment -- very primitive radiation therapy that carried a lot of toxicity to normal tissue, |
We were doing major radical surgery as standard treatment -- very primitive radiation therapy that carried a lot of toxicity to normal tissue. |
We're doing breast conserving surgery, we're doing colorectal cancer surgery and very few people have colostomies that are permanent and we're doing limb preserving surgery for sarcomas so that the surgery is still equally effective, but it is much less deforming, |