Thus, measures of CA 125 can not be trusted to give an accurate diagnosis of cancer — and yet a number of women who tested positive apparently feared the possibility of cancer so much that they decided to have their healthy ovaries removed anyway. (scientificamerican.com)
«In its original review of these studies, the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee recognised the possibility of cancer occurring as a result of this type of gene therapy,» says Norman Nevin, GTAC's chairman. (newscientist.com)
The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful part of life: terrible because you can't count on anything for sure — like certain good health and no possibility of cancer; wonderful because no human being knows when another is going to die — no doctor can absolutely predict the outcome of a disease. (goodreads.com)