Top 100 Cancer Is Quotes
#1. Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
Pierce Brosnan
#2. In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.
Richard Smalley
#3. Cancer is the worst way for a fictional wife to die.
Adam Johnson
#4. 'Cancer' is such a frightening word.
Kris Carr
#5. Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.
Mary Burton Maggie Watson
#6. When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
Norm MacDonald
#7. In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,
Laura Ziskin
#8. The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.
Tom Brokaw
#9. Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well.
Mandy Moore
#10. 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.
Nguyen Quyen
#11. Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#12. Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.
Suzanne Somers
#13. The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.
Michael Douglas
#14. Mother says she doesn't need the medication anymore, that the only cure for cancer is having a daughter who won't cut her hair and wears dresses too high above the knee even on a Sunday, because how knows what tackiness I'd do to myself if she died.
Kathryn Stockett
#15. He assured me that God didn't make cancer because cancer is not good, and he cautioned me not to blame God for something He didn't make.
Ron Hall
#16. 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.
Joni Rodgers
#17. I finally understand. Cancer is not a gypsy curse. It's a huge smashing wave. It catches you and drags you out. And anybody can be spit back up, and anybody can drown. -The Lucky Place
Zu Vincent
#18. Communication. It's important to be completely open and fearless when it comes to communication. Good, bad, happy, sad. Talk it out, hug, see a shrink, text each other, hurl marshmallows. Whatever it takes to ensure a deep understanding of each other's feelings. Cancer is not a solo mission.
Ethan Zohn
#19. Battling" is Vietnam. "Courage" is Normandy. Cancer is just fucking unfortunate.
Glenn Rockowitz
#20. Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit ...
Farrah Fawcett
#21. Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
Abbey Clancy
#22. The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the risk of cancer is relatively easy. Figuring out exactly which people will get sick, or how to cure them, is a lot more complicated.
Alex Berenson
#23. Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.
Kelly Corrigan
#24. 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.
Len Dawson
#25. Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
Hans Rosling
#26. Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer,
Henry Ford
#27. 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.
Paul W. Ewald
#28. When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.
David Baltimore
#29. Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.
Jonathan Alter
#30. Cancer is really a DNA disease ... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
Sam Kean
#31. Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.
Andrew Lo
#32. Cancer is a flaw in our growth, but this flaw is deeply entrenched in ourselves.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#33. Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.
Steven Popkes
#34. Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#35. My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.
Mollie King
#36. A cancer cell is an astonishing perversion of the normal cell. Cancer is a phenomenally successful invader and colonizer in part because it exploits the very features that make us successful as a species or as an organism.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#37. Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.
Francis Collins
#38. Any charity that aids or supports trying to find a cure for cancer is very close to my heart. My mom had cancer multiple times, so it's something that I can relate to.
Jennette McCurdy
#39. If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.
Ann Romney
#40. Cancer is nothing more than a healthy cell that starts replicating out of control.
Dan Brown
#42. To "stand there" at the bedside of a patient who is faced with death from cancer is anathema for oncologists.
Nortin M. Hadler
#43. What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me.
John Green
#44. Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother who drinks? Forget it. Straight to hell. Big fat scarlet letter branded on our foreheads for life. Me and Hester Prynne? Same letter, different sins.
Amy Hatvany
#45. A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.
Bill Vaughan
#48. Cancer is a passport to intimacy. It is an invitation, maybe even a mandate, to enter the most vital arenas of human life, the most sensitive and the most frightening, the ones that we never want to go to - but when we do go there, we feel incredibly transformed.
Bruce Feiler
#49. We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer.
Suzanne Somers
#50. Since cancer is an anaerobic growth, enhancing aerobic metabolism in a cancer patient is like shining daylight on a vampire.
Patrick Quillin
#52. 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.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#53. There are scores of studies demonstrating that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits reduces the risk of dying from all the Western diseases; in countries where people eat a pound or more of vegetables and fruits a day, the rate of cancer is half what is in the United States.
Michael Pollan
#54. Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.
Grete Waitz
#55. Cancer is not a pretty pink ribbon, people aren't sail through their treatments. They are bald, and throwing up and some of the treatments actually increase their risk for other cancers.
Loretta Schwartz-Nobel
#56. 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.
Paul Davies
#57. Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun,
Molly Ivins
#58. Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.
Ellen Pompeo
#59. Cancer is funniest when discussed over breakfast.
Amelia Gray
#60. Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
Eddie Van Halen
#61. Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.
Michael McCaul
#62. Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
Paul Davies
#63. Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud.
Linus Pauling
#65. Although cancer is not universally caused by viruses, certain viruses cause particular cancers, such as the human papilloma virus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#66. '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.
Len Dawson
#67. I understand that for the people who really care about you the fact that you are facing cancer is very hard to swallow. They will need time managing and dealing with their emotions just as you do.
Yilda B. Rivera
#68. Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.
Michael Greger
#70. Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
Kris Carr
#72. Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.
Paul Henderson
#73. Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
Regina Brett
#75. Cancer is a kind of possession, too. And like a demon, before it claims you, it nibbles away at who you are, erases the face you have always presented to the world to show the unwanted thing inside.
Andrew Pyper
#76. You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'
Tatsu.
Barry Eisler
#77. Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank.
Regina Brett
#78. LUNG CANCER is linked to cigarette smoking - but L&M still plug their cigarettes as "just what the doctor ordered.
Tony Bacon
#79. What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
Bonnie Blair
#80. Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
Pierce Brosnan
#81. I was hitting .360 when I was diagnosed. I didn't forget how to play while I was recovering. I don't know if the cancer is gone for good. I don't think anyone ever knows, but no one is going to steal my joy for as along as I'm able to play baseball.
Eric Davis
#82. It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?
Steven Weinberg
#83. Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.
Melissa Etheridge
#84. Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.
Michael Douglas
#85. We know cancer is caused ultimately via a link between the environment and genes. There are genes inside cells that tell cells to grow and the same genes tell cells to stop growing. When you deregulate these genes, you unleash cancer. Now, what disrupts these genes? Mutations.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#87. Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.
Farrah Fawcett
#88. In China, lung cancer is already a leading cause of death attributable to smoking in men.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#89. Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.
Cynthia Nixon
#91. Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
Harold E. Varmus
#92. I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.
Carly Fiorina
#93. Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#94. Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.
Amy Robach
#95. Every single cancer is a genetic disease. Not necessarily inherited from your parents, but it's genetic changes which cause cancer. So as we sequence the genomes of tumours and compare those to the sequence of patients, we're getting down to the fundamental basis of each individual person's cancer.
Craig Venter
#96. The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.
Amy Hoggart
#97. Although it happens more rarely in men, breast cancer is not gender-specific. I was in Costa Rica, and in the shower I felt this lump under my left nipple. It was very small, mind you, but enough to make me call my doctor.
Richard Roundtree
#98. Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.
John Green
#99. One of the worst things you can do if you're worried about breast cancer is to cook beef, pork, fish or poultry at a high temperature - which includes frying, grilling and roasting.
Michael Greger
#100. I was strong because cancer is resolute, and I didn't want the beast to win.
D. Nichole King
