Cancer Quotes

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families.

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds.