Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.

- Laurie Glimcher

I like to think of making cancer a chronic disease rather than focus just on curing cancer.

- Laurie Glimcher

The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.

- Laurie Glimcher

When we think about lung cancer, the biggest environmental factor is without doubt smoking. Um, that would make a huge impact and has made a huge imp…

- Laurie Glimcher

There are clearly environmental factors that can decrease the incidence and death from cancer. I would still say though that the majority of cancers …

- Laurie Glimcher

When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T lymphocytes are actually cost-…

- Laurie Glimcher

I think that the marriage of academic medical centers and academicians with the private sector is a very, is a marriage made in heaven because it's t…

- Laurie Glimcher

Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able to identify th…

- Laurie Glimcher

Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our immune system circula…

- Laurie Glimcher