oncology

Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self.

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Since cancer is an anaerobic growth, enhancing aerobic metabolism in a cancer patient is like shining daylight on a vampire.

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.

True hope has no room for delusion.