"I propose to speak of a monster that is more insatiable than the guillotine; more destructive to life and health than the mightiest army that ever marched to battle; more terrifying than any scourge that ever threatened the existence of the human race. The monster of which I speak...has fed and feasted and fattened...on the flesh and blood and brains and bones of men and children in every land. The sighs and sobs and shrieks that it has exhorted from perishing humanity would, if they were tangible things, make a mountain. The tears that it has wrung from weeping women's eye would make an ocean. The blood that it has shed would redden every wave that rolls on every sea. The name of this loathsome, deadly and insatiable monster is "cancer". --Senator Matthew Neely of West Virginia, as quoted in James T. Patterson, The Dread Disease (from How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science)
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