Eric Topol Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.”

“Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.”

“Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.”

“For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.”

“I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.”

“The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.”

“I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.”

“There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.”