Tumor Quotations

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Wouldn't it be great if you could meditate a tumor away? ... But there's no data to support this.

She's halfway through the treatments and reports from her doctor are favorable. The tumor is 50 percent of what it was, so that's a good thing. We take things day by day, one day at a time.

Since 1992, we have surveyed 10 other locations in the Chesapeake watershed. These catfish from the South River have the highest skin tumor rate and second highest liver tumor rate.

One can have a 10-year-old tumor languishing in one's prostate and pass a physical with flying colors. I know. It happened to me time and again, every fall, as I had my physical for college football. And again in 1969, when I passed my pre-induction physical for the military.

One third of all women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have found the tumor themselves.

One of the potential uses we envision is to use the ART treatment as a way to use tumor components to immunize cancer patients against their own cancer cells, ... The current problem with this treatment strategy is that the tumor gives off a variety of soluble products which we don't fully understand, but which we know wreck havoc on the immune system by suppressing its various components. If we can use the ART drugs to increase the number of newly produced T cells in cancer patients first, we can potentially improve the likelihood of getting a cancer vaccine to work.

But they never got that far with the gall bladder. They found the tumor when they did a CT scan. That's when they found his gallstones, but they also found this cancer.

I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.

He did an X-ray and found a tumor on my spine.

I was absolutely stunned because she told me that day that the tumor was shrinking and she was the picture of optimism that night.

Patients breathe. If you've got a lung tumor, the patient's going to move, so the tumor is going to move. You have to have an intelligent robot capable of moving along with the target. So this robotic system really expands radiosurgery for use throughout the body.

We observed rapid growth comparable to that seen with administration of daytime blood samples, when tumor activity is particularly high.

We recently did two benefits for a person with a brain tumor and at the first one, he was there. We love doing the benefits.

We've known for some time that 'total fat' is not the issue. Different kinds of fat affect tumor progression and other aspects of the cancer process in different ways that demand further research.

You have more police officers in the year 2000 for a problem that is much less. It's like giving a cancer patient more radiation and chemotherapy after the tumor has shrunk. It doesn't make sense.

Tumor cells are more sensitive to the negative effects of heat. If you heat up a normal cell, you can tolerate a fairly high temperature, up into the range of a bad fever. Whereas tumor cells tend to die as the temperature goes up.

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

Selective electrochemical tumor ablation can be performed on an outpatient basis and provides a relatively non-invasive and well-tolerated therapeutic option for patients with troublesome cutaneous and subcutaneous melanoma metastases.

Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.

Young women need to be advised of the risk of accelerated tumor growth and early relapse before giving informed consent for mammography.

They found a 2.7-pound tumor on his left lung. It was fiber sarcoma.

There's an opportunity cost of using these machines. I'd rather we use them to spot a tumor and save a life than earn an extra fraction of a percentage from stock trades.

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

It's highly effective against human tumor cells in tissue cultures. I think this represents a new approach to treatment of cancer.

The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.

After the third vaccination, we began to see T-cell responses. An antibody response to the tumor produced by recovering B cells was seen after the fourth or fifth vaccination.

Evidence is emerging that disruption of one's circadian clock is associated with cancer in humans, and that interference with internal timekeeping can tip the balance in favor of tumor development.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

In the younger women, there is a 50 percent reduction in the recurrence rate, and in the older women it's about a 25 percent reduction in the rate of tumor recurrence,

In people with highly advanced cancers, we saw about a quarter of them achieve what we call stable disease, meaning that the tumor no longer grew. There was no increase in tumor volume,

I think 10 years ago you couldn't even get this kind of care. If you had a dog with a tumor, they used to just let the tumor grow and put the dog to sleep. But the human-animal bond is growing.

How does the primary tumor cause the bone marrow cells to settle somewhere and provide a fertile field for metastasis - does it send out chemicals that stimulate the bone marrow cells? And why do those bone marrow cells settle where they do? It also opens possibilities for other avenues of attack against the cancer to prevent its spread. Before anything else, however, other researchers need to confirm that these findings are true.

I can re-create everything in my lab, but it's going to be painful. Stem cells in the gene banks and the cancer cells in the tumor banks: Those are irreplaceable.

You could use this to target tumor cells.

All the speculation, television, the media throwing things out all shook him up. Someone said he had a tumor on his spine. He thought it was very unfair.

The edges of tumors are where growth occurs, and they tell radiologists whether what they see is a tumor or not. You have to keep all these features intact when you compress the image if it is to be useful.

The future of radiation tends to be what we call stereotactic: radiation, which focuses on the tumor and applies large doses at one time as opposed to traditional radiation which is small doses over a longer time, ... There is a gamma knife that's dedicated to treating brain lesions where, instead of radiating the brain in a three-week period, it's a one-time focused, high-powered type treatment.

The first one on the jaw we call 'Brutus' because he's the big mean guy, and then she has a sugar-cube size tumor on the lining of her lung.

The last time I went to the doctor, my neurosurgeon, well, my neurologist told me not to call him unless I need him he was through with me, ... I did have a chemo wafer put in which releases the chemo directly onto the tumor and I take chemo every two weeks, but as for the treatment itself, for them to say there was no cure and for the treatment to work the way it did, they would explain to me that it was the attitude that the person has that helps the treatment to work. You know, if you have a good attitude, a fighting attitude, it is going to work.