Joseph Robinette Biden, Remarks by President Biden During Tour of Radiation Oncology Department (2021)
“ Jimmy Carter was declared basically gone five times. Now, he’s in trouble now, but it’s amazing that — you know, it’s a little bit like — it’s why you should never give up hope. When the breakthrough comes, it just comes through. ”
Joseph Robinette Biden, Remarks by President Biden During Tour of Radiation Oncology Department (2021)
“ With proton therapy, the dose stops right at the tumor so you’re not treating normal tissues. So it’s a major advancement in the treatment of cancers.THE PRESIDENT: Treating normal tissue sometimes is a very bad thing. Just — it also — it can destroy a normal tissue. It can destroy the cancer — hit that — but it goes through the cancer and destroys whatever is beyond it. ”
