Cancer Quotes
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
Where people are using phones in rural areas their risk of brain cancer is higher than in urban areas.
According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors.
In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an eight week wait to get radiation therapy for cancer.
The comfort of that lifestyle began to eat away at me like a cancer almost. It began to rob me of my joy and my faith. It kind of robbed me of my purpose.
To be honest, I inherited a mess.ISIS has spread like cancer - another mess I inherited.
I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.
If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.
I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.
I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.
Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.
(They) were found guilty of continuing to promote the merits of Laetrile in cancer therapy in violation of terms of probation they had originally secured following their 1973 conviction.
It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.
It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.
Our bodies are critical. If I learned anything from getting really bad cancer seven years ago, it's that your body is what you've got. If you don't take care of it, you're not going to be here.
Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.
We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.
There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.
Duality is a part of reality, and there is definitely winning and losing. If you don't think so talk to someone who has beaten cancer, talk to somebody who hasn't.
A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.
It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.
What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.
I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life.
You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.
Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.
Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.
I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.
Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.
If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.
Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.