Quotes About Cancer

#1. Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

Abbey Clancy

#2. In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.

Jane Green

#3. The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great cost only a few people.

Richard Lamm

#4. Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.

B.C. Forbes

#5. I don't want to be 'the girl with cancer' ... I just didn't want that to be my only thing. But it is pert of me. And it's a big part of me.

Hoda Kotb

#6. We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

LL Cool J

#7. 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

#8. For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.

Stuart Scott

#9. There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#10. Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Maya Angelou

#11. My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in L.A. and the Primo Center in Chicago. Kovler Diabetes Center in Chicago.

Regina Taylor

#12. Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only because it helps with weight control but because exercise tends to lower circulating estrogen levels.

Michael Greger

#13. Yearly mammograms have turned into the essential strategy for breast cancer screening. In any case, different exams including MRIs and hereditary testing are taken relying upon a lady's individual and family history.

Cancercenter

#14. 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.

Paul Henderson

#15. When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

Ana Castillo

#16. Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They're wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness.

Lisa Gardner

#17. Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

Hans Rosling

#18. My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Christopher Hitchens

#19. The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

T. Colin Campbell

#20. Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.

Richard M. Schulze

#21. Falling in love is sudden, easy, and fun. It's like a child going down a playground slide. Falling out of love is slow, difficult, and painful. It's like watching a child die of cancer. ~ Ben Davis, Sr.

Jayden Hunter

#22. Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

Yuvraj Singh

#23. Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.

Kris Carr

#24. I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

Joe Eszterhas

#25. We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.

Joel Fuhrman

#26. 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

#27. Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

John Ortberg

#28. My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.

Gisele Bundchen

#29. Cancer don't respect nothing.

David Chase

#30. I didn't believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, 'How can a young person like me get cancer?' I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer.

Yuvraj Singh

#31. Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

Marla Sokoloff

#32. If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death.

Dave Davidson

#33. It is so important to talk about your cancer and the feelings you have about it.

Mindy Sterling

#34. I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

Loni Anderson

#35. Every new increase in the vast imperial organism seemed to me an unsound growth, like a cancer or dropsical edema which would eventually cause our death.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#36. Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.

Jon Lester

#37. I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write.

Clayton M Christensen

#38. 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

#39. All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.

Joe Eszterhas

#40. Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.

Mary Roach

#41. If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.

Joel Fuhrman

#42. When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

Ann Jillian

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

Eva Vertes

#44. 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

#45. If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

Craig Venter

#46. I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out what's wrong is not a nice thing. But I can tell them, a 30- or 40-minute test is worth it. We have to make them feel more comfortable about getting screened.

Eric Davis

#47. My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.

Fran Drescher

#48. Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

Harry Browne

#49. If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more

Jim Stynes

#50. Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

Arthur M. Jolly

#51. Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

Julian Whitaker

#52. I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false.

Junot Diaz

#53. The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

Richard Roundtree

#54. Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Alan Perlis

#55. It was found that children who grow up with smokers in their homes are three times more likely to develop lung cancer in their later years than those who come from non-smoking homes.

K.C. Craichy

#56. The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

Georgios Papanikolaou

#57. When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.

Marianne Williamson

#58. If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#59. I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

Arlen Specter

#60. My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.

Jenna Morasca

#61. 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'.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#62. I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.

Andy Rourke

#63. Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.

Nicholas Tucker

#64. You're never too old for teddy bears, Dawn. You're just too young for cancer.

Lurlene McDaniel

#65. Cervical cancer doesn't discriminate by how much money you have. The disease affects so many - it's frightening.

Peta Todd

#66. The women I know who have gone through breast cancer still laugh a lot. They're not crying all day.

Monica Potter

#67. There are clearly environmental factors that can decrease the incidence and death from cancer. I would still say though that the majority of cancers cannot be prevented at this point, but they can be treated and they can be treated two major ways.

Laurie Glimcher

#68. Curing cancer affects good cells too in the short run but makes a life flourish in the long term. Curing corruption affects good people too in the short run but makes a nation flourish in the long term.

Vikrmn

#69. If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

Hamilton Jordan

#70. 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.

Richard Peto

#71. Nearly every one of the genes that turns out to be a key player in cancer has a vital role in the normal physiology of an organism. The genes that enable our brains and blood cells to develop are implicated in cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#72. What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

Lance Armstrong

#73. Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Harold E. Varmus

#74. One of us could always get pancreatic cancer," you said pleasantly.

Lionel Shriver

#75. Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.

Lynn Redgrave

#76. Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.

Wendy Davis

#77. Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people.

Richard M. Weiner

#78. A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.

Anonymous

#79. the doctor
hesitated
before
breaking the news
to her.

"those aren't
stars.

it's cancer."

- forty years a smoker

Amanda Lovelace

#80. The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Dan Simmons

#81. Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Bruce McCulloch

#82. Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life.

Sarah Perry

#83. Cancer doesn't give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.

A.S. King

#84. The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

Gordon England

#85. One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.

John Green

#86. 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.

Carla Hall

#87. A major hindrance to cancer effort has been a chronic, severe shortage of funds - a situation that is not generally recognized.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#88. We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

Francis Collins

#89. When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer.

Bryant McGill

#90. I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

Mindy Sterling

#91. I have preferred chloroform to cancer

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#92. SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.

Lynette Fromme

#93. He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.

Adelheid Manefeldt

#94. Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Mal Peet

#95. If a relative has suffered Ovarian or Breast Cancer, get the genetic screening. It saves lives.

Lisa Jey Davis

#96. Wood pellet grilling could potentially have a lower risk of cancer when compared to other forms of grilling, as some people say that it leads to the creation of fewer carcinogens.

Homaro Cantu

#97. Cancer though, it was a fickle friend that didn't care about your age, gender or race. It would move in take up residence and eventually kick you to the curb, it was a mean landlord and didn't care who it hurt in order to get what it wanted.

Ella Frank

#98. Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'

Anne Wojcicki

#99. We can raise the dead. We can cure cancer. We can make the world better in every possible way, save one: No matter how hard we try, we just can't cure stupid.

Mira Grant

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

Michael F. Jacobson