We trust the aggregate knowledge of experts — what do 97 % of oncologists
think about this cancer treatment — more than that of any single expert.
It's a scary feeling to even
think about cancer, chemotherapy, and radiation.
Craig B. Thompson, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, discusses new ways to
think about cancer and how cancer arises in human beings.
«I was not prepared for how long it took before I didn't
think about cancer constantly,» recalls Lynn Prowitt - Smith, 42, an editor from Fairfield, Conn..
«I can honestly say that in my 23 years at the Cancer Research Institute, I have never been more excited about the potential for cancer immunotherapy to revolutionize the way
we think about cancer, the way we treat it, and the way we live with it.
When people
think about cancer research, they may envision men and women in lab coats, carefully dripping substances into test tubes or peering thoughtfully into microscopes.
«When most people
think about cancer genetics, they think about single key mutations that foster tumor formation — very specific things like the BRCA genes,» said Joe R. Delaney, PhD, a fellow in the Clinical Translation program at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center and lead author of the paper published February 15 in Nature Communications.
«We're beginning to think about headaches today the way
we think about cancer,» says Goadsby.
Gatenby began
thinking about cancer as an evolutionary problem in the early 1990s, when he was working at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
But when he began
thinking about cancer from an evolutionary perspective, the problem became tractable again, he says.
Epigenetics has also led to «a paradigm shift
thinking about cancer,» Tilghman said.
But taken together, the findings call for a shift in our overall
thinking about cancer.
BALTIMORE: Well, the war on cancer led us to many, many discoveries that have completely changed
the thinking about cancer research.
Not exact matches
He changed the way I
think about my body and helped me to achieve greater levels of energy, balance, and mindfulness as a mother, two - time entrepreneur, and three - time
cancer survivor.
Though JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon characterized his throat
cancer as «curable,» it's «not exploitative» to
think about his successor, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management, told CNBC on Wednesday.
As a
cancer researcher, do you
think the mechanisms of tumor growth are somehow changing to come into line with your perceptions, or is it possible that the process of our learning more
about DNA mutations and cell architecture and nutrient exchange and epigenetic effects make it possible for us to inch ever closer to understanding that which is already going on under our noses?
My dad lost a battle with
cancer 17 years ago and I know he was
thinking about his family at the end and not any larger questions
about life.
The families of those innocent dead children from all the tsunamis, tornados, and
cancers that god sent us are going to have a hard time even
thinking about «silver linings».
And from: «Adolescents don't
think or - al se - x is something to worry
about (even though is becoming a major cause of throat
cancer),» said Bonnie Halpern - Felsher professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.
«Adolescents don't
think or - al se - x is something to worry
about (even though is becoming a major cause of throat
cancer),» said Bonnie Halpern - Felsher professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.
My father, an antic radio comedian, hedged his bets a little: it was not in his nature to defy a Gigantic Invisible Jew who could give you
cancer just by
thinking about it.
Not just to want You when I
think about You but to want You all the time, to
think about You all the time, to have the want driving in me, to have it like a
cancer in me.
I am in a position right now with paying off
cancer sugeries that when I
think about purchasing something I have to ask myself, «okay, Tammy, is this a need or a want?»
Caroline Posted on @Sarah My brother saw this movie when it came out and raved
about it; I didn't see it until a few years later when I was osbsseed with DL's No Cure for
Cancer album and was convinced it was the funniest thing ever (I still might
think that).
As I muse over the messy journey of motherhood and
cancer, I often find myself
thinking about the Christmas Story.
What I
think is really important for me
about the book is, I wrote it as if I were dying, and I finished the manuscript, and then they told me I had
cancer and that it expanded further than they'd hoped and that it was more advanced than we would want, and I didn't know if it was going to be my last Christmas.
Think about this for a moment: Would anyone in their right mind trust an ER doctor to properly palliate the pain of terminal
cancer or treat lethal congestive heart failure?
Is it more reasonable to
think that life came
about at this time, at this place, because of the circu mstances of this place at this time or that a unknown, unknowable, omniscient, omnipresence, being from another time, space and reality and is totally outside of our universal knowledge of everything somehow, for reasons that no one can or ever will know created you along with
cancer.
We heard from ambassadors Barry DuBois who shared his own store
about his ongoing battle with
cancer, and Sarah Wilson who made us pause by opening with the thought that «people coming together is what really matters», and I learned a bit more about what Cancer Council
cancer, and Sarah Wilson who made us pause by opening with the
thought that «people coming together is what really matters», and I learned a bit more
about what
Cancer Council
Cancer Council does.
When James Worthington's 13 - year - old nephew was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma two years ago, he began
thinking about what his business, Kneaders Bakery & Cafe, could do to help children suffering from
cancer.
Being a
cancer survivor makes you really
think about what your body needs to function well.
Hi Nebsy, I
think your comments are disgraceful no one should wish
cancer on anyone irrespective of how we feel
about that person.
Though we're just past National Breast
Cancer Awareness Month, breast health is something that women need to
think about all year round so I'm really excited to share this Q&A with Cate Mullen, RN, MSN, AOCNS (Nurse Coordinator of the Tufts Breast Center) as part of on ongoing editorial partnership with Tufts Medical Center.
Breast
cancer survivor Christina Applegate opened up to People magazine
about becoming a mother, and how her double mastectomy changed how she
thought things would go for her.
what a great post, as a mom to a girl who is now 11 years old, and got
cancer when she was 8 months and i had started to go down with her breasfeeding, but then she had too start kemotherapy, and all she would take was the breast, so we went on, but now
thinking back, i relly had to struggle whith the hospital personal because the thougth she was getting too old for it, (she had kemo for 2 years) but we went on several years, and i remember that i almost hide it, only the closed family new, thats sad too
think about, so this is very refreshing to read.
After being a nurse in the PICU, I
thought about all of the genetic disorders my patients had encountered, (i.e. various
cancers, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy) and I wondered if there were anyway stem cells could have cured or at least improved their conditions.
I'm sick of reading
about these breastfeeding mothers who
think they're curing
cancer and solving all of the worlds ills.
No one really wants to
think about the possibility, but when it comes to breast
cancer, you can not ignore the signs.
«I don't
think brave is the right word for it,» said one City Hall insider
about the speaker's tweet Sunday night that she had HPV, which in rare cases can lead to cervical
cancer.
Think about what's happening here in Manchester, projects to rebuild 10,000 homes in run - down areas axed, # 560m of transport schemes scrapped, sweeping cuts at Bolton, Salford, Trafford and Rochdale councils, 150 firefighter jobs at risk in Greater Manchester Fire Service, # 7m of cuts in the police force, up to 1,000 NHS admin jobs in danger and a local breast
cancer helpline, that has taken 80,000 calls since it was set up,
about to be closed, because health trusts will no longer foot the # 63,000 annual running cost,» he said.
We were talking
about cancer tumors, just earlier and
about, you know, how, I
think, it was you who was saying that, you know, the tumor grows very quickly, almost springs up all at once, and it's almost, not that it acts like an infectious thing, but it's like almost a failure of the rest of the body to prevent tumor from growing.
Women who have had breast
cancer are often told they should
think twice
about having a child because pregnancy could worsen their disease.
But a new study suggests that mature cells also play a key role in initiating
cancer — a finding that could upend the way scientists
think about the origins of the disease.
As he finished up a major paper from his postdoc, Bob, a
cancer biologist, began to
think about the next step he would need to take to establish a career.
So, we normally
think about ultraviolet as harmful; that it causes melanoma, skin
cancer, and that sort of thing.
«When someone is
thinking about joining my group I am very up front with what my expectations are,» says PI Paul Doetsch, professor and distinguished chair in
cancer research, at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, adding that one major expectation he has for his lab members is a strong work ethic.
«Meanwhile, I knew
about the Spanish National
Cancer Centre (CNIO) being built, with Mariano Barbacid as director, and I
thought it would be a great place to be.»
«Our findings have implications for how to
think about the earliest processes that drive
cancer and telomerase as a therapeutic target.
«We are joining everyone who spends their days
thinking about preventing
cancer,
about better understanding its biological basis,
about bringing early detection and education to all communities,
about developing new treatments and therapies and
about caring for patients and their families through some of the hardest days anyone faces.»
«We had a hypothesis
about how these treatments would work together, and when we did biopsies of patients» tumors we found that they were cooperating in just the way we
thought they would,» says lead author Antoni Ribas, director of the Immunology Program at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive
Cancer Center.