Sayings About Cancer Survival

#1. I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?

Abram Hoffer

#2. I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.

Koo Stark

#3. To argue that universal health care would wreck the U.S. lead in cancer survival, you'd have to argue that universal health care would wreck the entire U.S. economy.

Timothy Noah

#4. The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

Lance Armstrong

#5. We are all precancerous.

George Carlin

#6. So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

Michael Milken

#7. That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.

Shelley Hamlin

#8. The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.

Emily Bronte

#9. Like with every form of cancer, early detection is what it is all about. I urge everyone to learn the facts about this condition. It can be prevented with testing, and it can be beaten if caught early!

Rod Stewart

#10. My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

Irwin Shaw

#11. Cancer is enough to get my attention.

Charles Grodin

#12. Cancer is not for sissies.

Suzanne Somers

#13. Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

Ellen Key

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

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#15. I like the big questions.

Christy Turlington

#16. A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of desires and fears, where the only public consensus a boy must surrender to is the acknowledged primacy of straight-line pursuing this flat and short-sighted idea of personal happiness.

David Foster Wallace

#17. the Count bounced twice on his new mattress to identify the key of the bedsprings (G-sharp),

Amor Towles

#18. If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life.

Bryant McGill

#19. 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

#20. Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

Ike Skelton

#21. I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more.

Megan Alexander

#22. If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources.

Matthew Desmond

#23. I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

Tammy Faye Bakker

#24. Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

Mr. T

#25. I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

David Rakoff

#26. We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

Peter Jennings

#27. Cancer is everybody's cause.

Laura Ziskin

#28. When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.

Suzanne Somers

#29. 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

#30. My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

Brian Krzanich

#31. Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.

Shaun Hick

#32. People forget I started on TV as a 7-stone 12-year-old - I'm bound to have changed. I've just grown up and filled out. I haven't been hammering it in the gym, and I haven't been thinking, 'Right, I need to look good.'

Kelvin Fletcher

#33. Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years.

Craig Venter

#34. Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

Olivia Newton-John

#35. I am an actress and acting is my passion ... period!

Christine Lahti

#36. To feel successful, you must be able to be honest about the things that are really important to you.

Daniel G. Amen

#37. As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

Julia Kent