Cancer Quotes

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.

Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

You don't fight cancer with grants, or heart disease with grants.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

Cancer is like another form of life. It's closely related to healthy life. A healthy body is one form of life. Cancer is in a way nature's experiment with life.

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

If I were going to put my money on it, I would bet that by 2050—hopefully earlier—we’ll have found that more than 80 percent of all human cancer is caused by infection.

I see racism as a cancer. It is a cancer growing in us. Unless we stop it, it vegetates and grows bigger which hurts every one of us.

This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Cancer changes your whole life.

This (Coley's toxins) is really an effective treatment and it an OUTRAGEOUS crime of the century that we at MSK were able to cure cancer a 100 years ago that they can't cure today.

Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy.

Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people.

My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!

I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen.

You know what happens to people who lie. They get sick and they get cancer. If they keep lying, they get it again.

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

humanity is a cancer on the body of the world

Not only do I say, get up and get out, I tell the cancer to get up and get out. And if you don't get up and get out, I'm going to shout you out. And I get to shout.

That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.

[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either.

In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.

Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.