Top 27 Quotes About Ovarian Cancer
#1. I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer.
Nicole Kidman
#2. Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%.
Kristi Funk
#3. Work never killed anyone. It's worry that does the damage. And the worry would disappear if we'd just settle down and do the work.
Earl Nightingale
#4. I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.
Andie MacDowell
#5. BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#9. I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'
Angelina Jolie
#10. My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel?
Hilary Mantel
#11. I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded.
Terry Tempest Williams
#12. Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or ovarian cancer.
Kristi Funk
#13. Resistance knows that the amateur composer will never write his symphony because he is overly invested in its success and overterrified of its failure.
Steven Pressfield
#14. I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.
Gilda Radner
#15. Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve to draft me number one.
Herb Adderley
#16. Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
James E. Faust
#17. I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.
Kathy Bates
#18. You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.
Jean Chatzky
#19. I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.
Pierce Brosnan
#20. We are the great miracle of creation! But from some blows this miraculous body cannot repair itself!
J.M. Coetzee
#21. 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
#22. If a relative has suffered Ovarian or Breast Cancer, get the genetic screening. It saves lives.
Lisa Jey Davis
#23. 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
#24. Nobody ever loved you like I do. ~ Steve thinking to himself about Chenco
Heidi Cullinan
#25. So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.
Michael Howard
#26. You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
Seth Godin
#27. in BRCA-1 has a 50 to 80 percent chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime (the gene also increases the risk for ovarian cancer), about three to five times the normal risk.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
