Cancer Quotes

You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.

More people live off cancer than die from it.

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

I'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

I hope we find a cure for every major disease, because I'm tired of walking 5K. I'm pretty sure I don't have to sweat for cancer. I'll write a check.

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.

If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer.

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.

For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.

The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.

So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumour anymore. It went away.