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Harold E. Varmus Quotes
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Harold E. Varmus
American
Scientist
Born:
Dec 18
,
1939
Cancer
Me
Medicine
Money
Reading
Science
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
Harold E. Varmus
People
Smoking
Behavior
Important
Medicine
Incredibly
Willingness
Habits
Take
Steps
Questions
Begin
HIV
Behavioral
Quit
Transmission
Avoid
Premise
Element
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
Harold E. Varmus
Way
Characterized
General
Arise
Been
Cancers
Microscope
Which
Organs
Appear
I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.
Harold E. Varmus
Work
Appreciation
Treat
Better
Cancer
Will
Believe
Respond
Kinds
Allow
Feed
Make
Vulnerabilities
Surrounding
Cancers
Going
Cells
Which
Predictions
Us
Much
Deeper
My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
Harold E. Varmus
Day
Reading
Summer
Ideal
Porch
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
Harold E. Varmus
Life
Future
Me
Doors
Medicine
Moods
Future Life
Prompted
Tropical
Stein
Had
Opened
Academic
Learned
Disease
Psychiatrist
Different
Literary
View
Specialist
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
Harold E. Varmus
College
Journalism
Undergraduate
Devoted
While
Fulfilling
Requirements
Amherst
Novels
A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
Harold E. Varmus
Life
Become
Thirty
Extraordinary
Late
Feature
Physicians
Attempting
Major
Courses
Scientists
Offering
Evening
Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
Harold E. Varmus
Cancer
Will
Own
Collection
More
Terms
Principles
Understood
Effectively
Disease
Diseases
Controlled
Common
Many
Each
The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
Harold E. Varmus
Meet
Ensure
Unbalanced
Proposals
Leaders
Highly
Scientific
Creating
Grant
Regularly
Ignoring
Original
Portfolio
Programme
Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
Harold E. Varmus
Increased
Others
Some
Diagnosis
Making
Cured
Accuracy
Controlled
Early
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