Cancer Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

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.

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.

Cancer had a chance to break me down, but I was determined to fight back with strength and positivity.

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

I'm cancer-free right now. That's it.

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed.

More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

Your mission: Be so busy loving your life you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

Surgeon General's warning ought to read: Smoking has been determined t0 cause cancer, heart disease & rednecks with seniority.

Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

You die in the middle of your life.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.

I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.

Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.

When you're younger, you don't believe in it, but it's really so important to stay out the of sun as much as you can. Like if you wanna get tan, you can get a spray tan and not get skin cancer.

The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.