Harmon Eyre Cancer Quotations

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,

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.

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'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.

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.

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

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.

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.