When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
From Harold E. Varmus
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.
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.
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