Joel Fuhrman Quotes

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

I'm a researcher, so I'm realistic that there's nothing I'm doing that's going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down.

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too.

You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

We want to keep creating the biggest impact we can in the cancer space by focuses on prevention, early detection, and psychosocial support.

I have four things to be concerned about: prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and breast cancer. The rest of my life I have to be very much aware and conscious and do all of the early detection.

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

More than 90% of cancers are curable at stage one - look for them, look for them, look for them.

Society does not seem prepared to accept the sacrifices required for an effective prevention of cancer.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.

Any charity that aids or supports trying to find a cure for cancer is very close to my heart. My mom had cancer multiple times, so it's something that I can relate to.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.