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Laurie Glimcher Quotes

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The biggest risk factor for cancer is aging  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) Hepatitis C was a devastating disease but because fundamental research was done in hepatitis C, it is now curable. It is now absolutely curable with new medications. So this is transformative  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) If you have a pap smear every year, there’s no reason to develop cervical cancer  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) Precision medicine is one way to attack cancer and it’s proven to be very effective but, remember that like HIV/AIDS, you’re going to need combination therapies  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let’s give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) Once you close down your laboratory, you can’t just rev it up again if you’re able to finally get a grant  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) HIV/AIDS from converted from a lethal disease into a chronic disease because basic scientists’ fundamental research was done that illuminated aspects of that virus and allowed the generation of therapies like antiretroviral therapies. And so now HIV/AIDS is not a lethal disease, it is a chronic disease  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) I think there’s a lack of understanding which is partly our fault as scientists and physicians in not communicating well enough with the public. But there’s a lack of understanding of how important biomedical research is  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) There are clearly environmental factors that can decrease the incidence and death from cancer. I would still say though that the majority of cancers cannot be prevented at this point, but they can be treated and they can be treated two major ways  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes) The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.  (Laurie Glimcher Quotes)