Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

We are moving to a time where we are no longer going to treat cancer patients based on just what kind of cancer they have.

We see younger patients now, especially with cancer. At one time our average cancer patients were probably over 60 but now there are many more in their 40s, partly because we are identifying earlier. We are better educated and that is helping to drive down death rates. And with advancements we are catching it earlier.