David Agus

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

We all need to figure out what's right for us because nothing about life is one size fits all. Even for an Olympian, that's for sure. And such discovery starts with you paying attention - to yourself.

I have developed a unique way of looking at the relationship of the human body to health and disease.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!

In health care today, we spend most of the dollars - in terms of treating disease - in the last two years of a person's life.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.

Keep a strict, predictable schedule 365 days a year that has you eating, sleeping, and exercising at about the same times day in and day out.

Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.

There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'