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Vice President Biden had recently launched the 'Cancer Moonshots', a campaign to finally eradicate cancer across humanity. He had lost his eldest son, Beau, in 2015, to brain cancer, and the ESPYs gave him a platform to raise awareness.

~Craig Sager

Topics: Across Awareness Beau Brain Campaign Cancer Eldest Eradicate Finally Gave Had He Him His Humanity Lost Platform President Raise Recently Son Vice Vice President

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If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Cancer Code Genetic Important Important Thing Know Lung Most Most Important Thing The Most Important Thing You Your

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Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.

~Craig Venter

Topics: All Women Associated Breast Cancer Cancer Chance Changes Discovery Genes Genetic Get Getting Had Out Part Physicians Problem So-Called The Problem With Turns Women Wrongly

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Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Average Because Cancer Colon Direction Early Example Exams Far For Example Frequent Genetic Go Greater Had Having He Inexpensive Knew Medicine Person Relatively Risk Surgery Survival Than Years

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Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer.

~Craig Venter

Topics: Basis Cancer Cause Changes Compare Disease Down Each Each Individual Every Fundamental Genetic Getting Individual Inherited Necessarily Parents Patients Person Sequence Single Those Which Your

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Oprah is signed on to help, and a lot of celebrity friends have agreed to help me raise money for Make-A-Wish. We want to make the world a better place for innocent children. I cried my heart out when my father died from cancer. I wish I was smarter, wiser like a doctor, to save these children from dying.

~Criss Angel

Topics: Agreed Better Better Place Cancer Celebrity Children Cried Died Doctor Dying Father Friends Heart Help Innocent Like Lot Make Me Money Oprah Out Place Raise Save Signed Smarter Want Wiser Wish World I Wish

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I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

~Curt Schilling

Topics: Awareness Billion Billion Dollars Cancer Center Change Change The World Company Costs Create Dollar Dollars Go Let Us Lets Me Out Quarter Skin Us Wanted World

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I used to visit kids with cancer all the time. Now I'm in the club. I understand what's happening to these little kids with brain cancer, and I ask myself, 'How do they make it through the day?' So you see a little 5-year-old and you say, 'If she can do it, I can suck it up.'

~Curt Schilling

Topics: Ask Brain Cancer Club Day Happening How Kids Little Little Kids Make Myself Now Say See She Suck Through Time Understand Up Used Visit You I Can

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I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

~Cynthia Nixon

Topics: Always Breast Cancer Cancer Chance Get Going Good Good Chance Really Sort Thought

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I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

~Cynthia Nixon

Topics: Between Bit Breast Cancer Cancer Daily Door Experience Feel Habits Know Like Little Little Bit Lives Looks Mother Next Next Door Person Someone Who I Feel

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