It turns out that a woman's chance of being cured is 30 times greater than having a fatal complication or side effect from taking the drug, ... So if the woman takes the drug, her rate of benefit compared to risk is 30 to one.

We've done focus groups by the dozens and people find it motivational, ... They get the message and recognize it's colon cancer and are supposed to go to their doctor and get a test.

He's hilarious. I like the one where he's in a woman's kitchen with his face smeared with food and the doctors come and chase him down.

In the long run, it's very clear that we will discover how to cure cancer, ... It's just a question of time and a question of complete understanding. This is a major step in that direction.

If you identify a population at risk for death, it's much easier to get them to change their behavior -- both to never start smoking in the beginning and to stop if they are smoking and have this high-risk gene.

It's amazing that it's as active in the blast crisis as it is, ... Essentially for all practical purposes that disease is basically untreatable. It was completely unexpected in my mind. It's possible that, if combined with chemotherapy, we may see even better responses.