"The numbers continue to climb, but final statistics are unimportant, especially to those who are unfortunate enough to have developed the disease. The important fact is that this cancer poses a very real and potentially lethal threat to segments of the gay culture. It is a menace that must be dealt with logically and quickly if we are to overcome it, and knowledge of the disease, its causes and effects, is our best weapon."

-- Douglas Mayfair
"Gay Cancer," Mandate, December 1981

"Those ID docs lived their lives with 'find a bug, find a pill' mentality. They have never worked in a field such as cancer or leukemia where advances and successes are slow in coming and sometimes don't come at all. They look down on oncologists because we don't have a myriad of great success stories. But, now they are baffled because HIV has finally stumped them. Things are no longer so easy. There is no quick fix."

-- Anonymous NCI oncologist, 1994

"The [mere] observation of patients with progressive KS in the setting of HIV infection is no longer acceptable."

-- Steven A. Miles, M.D.
Kaposi's Sarcoma (in press), 1994

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