Cancer Quotes

It is not possible to make a certain evaluation...that cancer may be arrested if 'caught early'.

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

If I can just stop being so stressed out, maybe my cancer will get better! This is far less scary than treating a disease of unknown etiology.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

I don't want to be 'the girl with cancer' ... I just didn't want that to be my only thing. But it is part of me. And it's a big part of me.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart.

Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you." She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?" "Like a favorite vice.

I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.

The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem with that? There isn't any.

You don't treat cancer - you fight it.

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

The only things that are immortal in this world are government programs and cancer cells in petri dishes.

Cancer is always funny.

Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.

You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self.

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.

My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).

Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle.

Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic.

Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.

...the NCI...Annual planning Project Requirements (says that) by July 1, 1975, it is estimated that 670,000 people in the US will be working on cancer.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

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

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.