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Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.


Harold E. Varmus

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HAROLD MACMILLAN No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN