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Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.

There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer.

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.