Quotes About Cancers

#1. 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

#2. The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

Anthony Fauci

#3. Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

Yann Martel

#4. Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers.

Joel Fuhrman

#5. All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#6. Nyx rubbed the ointment onto her new, darker skin. She was nearly as dark as Suha now. She supposed it would protect her from more cancers, but it was funny-looking. At least her face was the same. At least her face didn't look Chenjan.
I'm never going to get laid again, Nyx thought.

Kameron Hurley

#7. I don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.

Oriana Fallaci

#8. Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

Harold E. Varmus

#9. Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.

Deroy Murdock

#10. 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

#11. When the brain perceives you are no longer reproductive because your hormones are out of balance, it tries to get rid of you, and it usually activates the cancers in perimenopause.

Suzanne Somers

#12. The four most common cancers that account for about 80 percent of all cancer deaths are lung, breast, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer.

Laurie Glimcher

#13. Cancers of all types among women are increasing.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#14. Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy ... The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.

Ralph W. Moss

#15. 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

#16. The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case

Ralph W. Moss

#17. Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.

Paul Harvey

#18. In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

Harold E. Varmus

#19. The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.

Ray Comfort

#20. 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

#21. You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?

Cokie Roberts

#22. Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy.

Richard Doll

#23. Combine anti-cancer foods to maximize protection against all cancers: A number of plant foods are associated with lower risk of cancers, and substances contained in these foods display anti-cancer or immune-boosting properties.

Joel Fuhrman

#24. Hereditary cancer syndromes are characterized by substantial but not absolute risks of specific cancers.

Katherine Schneider

#25. My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Loni Anderson

#26. Secrets...were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk.

Harlan Coben

#27. 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

#28. African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well.

Frank C. Garland

#29. I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

Robert H. Schuller

#30. I hope I can become a voice for all cancers and all patients.

Kathy Giusti

#31. Be that as it may, I have been noticing a statistically significant correlation between excessive childhood exposure to radiation and cancers later in life.

Kim Van Alkemade

#32. Studies continue to provide evidence that more than any other food, fruit is associated with lowered mortality from all cancers combined.

Joel Fuhrman

#33. It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix.

Harald Zur Hausen

#34. Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.

Yael Cohen

#35. I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.

Fran Drescher

#36. Otto Warburg had, half a century before, proposed that oxidation was the cause of many cancers.

Carl Sagan

#37. Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.

Harald Zur Hausen

#38. Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the early stages.

Jane Green

#39. Vegetables and fruits protect against all types of cancers if consumed in large enough quantities.

Joel Fuhrman

#40. There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

Eric Topol

#41. It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer ... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem

Barry Lynes

#42. Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?

Dick Cavett

#43. I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.

Robert Winston

#44. We and other groups are seeing clear statistical links between telomere shortness and risk for a variety of diseases that are becoming very common, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and certain cancers.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#45. Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established.

John Cairns

#46. I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.

Harold E. Varmus

#47. The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves over and over again. More and more cancer biologists say stem-cell-like cells in cancers are the most dangerous.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#48. Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#49. Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#50. According to leading researchers, however, only about 10 to 15 percent of cancers are genetic in origin; the rest are caused by a combination of environmental and lifestyle factors.

Dharma Singh Khalsa

#51. The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.

Marianne Williamson

#52. I try to be as positive as I can because I truly believe I am my feelings, and if I'm sad, if I have regrets, they will show up as illnesses, they will show up as cancers ... I don't want that.

Marie Helvin

#53. Given the number of small cancers they did find and the number that they reasoned they had missed...the researchers concluded that virtually everybody would have some evidence of thyroid cancer if examined carefully enough.

H. Gilbert Welch

#54. 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.

Charles W. Pickering

#55. Coffee is already known to be a preventive factor against mild depression, Parkinson's disease, and colon and rectal cancers.

Chris Kilham

#56. I know and know of more than a few MTF's (male-to-female trannies) who've developed strange cancers. Myself, I've got a nice little case of Chronic Lymphocitic Leukemia (CLL).

Kate Bornstein

#57. I've never been in parliament as a National, I gave up smoking about the same time [and] I've rid myself of two cancers.

Tony Windsor

#58. Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

Bernard Levin

#59. Everyone needs all the awareness of sarcoma they can get. Twelve thousand people get diagnosed a year. That's too many. One percent of cancers are sarcomas, and about 15% of pediatric cancers are sarcomas.

Peri Gilpin

#60. There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

Eric Topol