Paul Fisher Quotations

This county had a need to supplement existing leadership development programs we have. There are never enough.

You read about it in the newspapers every day and you think, how can people do this? But by the next day you go on to something else.

It's not OK to just measure disease control and survival. We need to know what children's lives will be like after therapies,

She was a well-rounded player. She's been a real leader on the team, and an excellent student.

Brain tumor patients tend to suffer a lot of cancer symptoms even after therapy,

We've been very focused on curing brain cancer, which we now do in about 68 percent of the kids,

After therapy for cancer, society often assumes that children can get back to life as before, but this is simply wrong,

The longer it's been since their diagnosis, the more reluctant the kids are to talk about it, ... They know they're not the same person they were before, and it's very upsetting for them.

All the reports I've read suggest that if you're not marketing to those 50 and over, you're missing out. The material shows that they have the biggest pool of discretionary money, and a lot of it goes to leisure activity from those who are retiring younger. But there are many more who will continue to work because they don't want to retire, or because they can't.

is a priority. We need to know what children's lives will be like after therapies. We need to research what therapies protect better the quality of life, as viewed from the patient and parents -- not just the doctor.