Harmon Eyre Quotes (16 Quotes)

This is a drug that controls cancer with almost no side effects. So, for us in the world of oncology to have that is a huge breakthrough. It's a great drug, a great new discovery.

Consistently it's been found that women who drink more than one drink a day have about a 20 percent higher risk for breast cancer than women who do not drink.

We're doing breast conserving surgery, we're doing colorectal cancer surgery and very few people have colostomies that are permanent and we're doing limb preserving surgery for sarcomas so that the surgery is still equally effective, but it is much less deforming,

If you identify a population at risk for death, it's much easier to get them to change their behavior -- both to never start smoking in the beginning and to stop if they are smoking and have this high-risk gene.

It's amazing that it's as active in the blast crisis as it is, ... Essentially for all practical purposes that disease is basically untreatable. It was completely unexpected in my mind. It's possible that, if combined with chemotherapy, we may see even better responses.

He's hilarious. I like the one where he's in a woman's kitchen with his face smeared with food and the doctors come and chase him down.

The FDA could legitimately speed up approval of new drugs as they become available because people are dying and we want to get the drugs available as fast as possible,

Blacks have twice the rates of prostate cancer death as Caucasian men, ... For reasons we don't know, it also starts at a younger age in African-American men.

In the long run, it's very clear that we will discover how to cure cancer, ... It's just a question of time and a question of complete understanding. This is a major step in that direction.

Women with breast cancer almost universally die from it within 10 years if they don't get treated, ... It's quite different with prostate cancer. Many, if not most, men will live over 10 years with prostate cancer.

It turns out that a woman's chance of being cured is 30 times greater than having a fatal complication or side effect from taking the drug, ... So if the woman takes the drug, her rate of benefit compared to risk is 30 to one.

The most fundamental problem we're dealing with is we don't know the cause of breast cancer. But we will find out.

We're not disputing that there is a plausibility that secondhand smoke could cause breast cancer. All we're saying is that the evidence has just not reached that level.

We were doing major radical surgery as standard treatment -- very primitive radiation therapy that carried a lot of toxicity to normal tissue,

We've done focus groups by the dozens and people find it motivational, ... They get the message and recognize it's colon cancer and are supposed to go to their doctor and get a test.

There's increasing ... data that says if men get early detection for prostate cancer, the death rate in that population goes down.