Cancer Quotes
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.
One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.
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?
If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.
My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.
A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.
Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.
People think the FDA is protecting them -- it isn't. What the FDA is doing, and what people think it's doing, are as different as night and day.
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.
If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.
If we could do something that enhances the body's immune system here on Earth, it would be a tremendous step forward in the fight against disease and cancer and other things.
I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.
I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.
Medications are palliatives. They are not designed to cure the degenerative diseases of the body.
Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came to my mind, and I believe that helped to calm my own anxiety.
I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.
There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.
There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.
Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
I will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health care. I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.
Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.
I got worries by the ton, getting cancer's only one. Over taxed and alimonied, tired of eating fried baloney.
"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.
I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.