Top 100 Tumor Quotes
#1. How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going to pop a tumor out of your body the day after you eat it.
Laurie Notaro
#2. The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality..
Terence McKenna
#3. Second, proto-oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes typically lie at the hubs of cellular signaling pathways.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#4. When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself.
Stefan Molyneux
#5. From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this ... The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.
Ali Khamenei
#6. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
Lee Atwater
#7. The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.
Shannon O'Brien
#8. The enzyme beta-glucoronidase is necessary to ... 'trigger off'.. laetrile ... after the laetrile injection, we injected directly into the tumor ... beta-glucoronidase. The result was white slough which encompassed the (tumor) growth. ... The slough resorbed and was replaced by normal (tissue).
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
#9. Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start?
Dave DeBronkart
#10. After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
Mark Ruffalo
#11. Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
Eve Ensler
#12. We trust that coordinating physical and enthusiastic consideration amid tumor treatment is fundamental to effective results.
Cancercenter
#13. I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.
David Rakoff
#14. Nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. In
T. Colin Campbell
#15. Another one of life's little jokes. I thought it was a tumor 'til it started to kick.
Sue Grafton
#16. Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.
T. Colin Campbell
#17. Dr. Sankhala is skilled in victimisation novel metastatic tumor medication for patients with advanced malignancies.
Cancercenter
#19. Oh I'd be more than happy to hold, I'll just spend the time working on that brain tumor.
David C. Holley
#20. Dying from an aggressive fatal brain tumor is like dying from Alzheimer's disease accelerated one hundred times.
Steven Magee
#21. What I do know is I've got a brain filled with jokes I can't forget - like a tumor the size of a grapefruit inside of my skull. And I know that eventually even dog shit turns white and stops stinking, but I have this permanent head filled with crap I've been trained my whole life to think is funny.
Chuck Palahniuk
#22. I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
Jennifer Grey
#23. The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.
Jane Green
#24. It's been said that mistletoe extract enhances immune function, which increases the production of the immune cells. When administered as a form of therapy for cancer, the extracts are given by injection under the skin, into a vein or directly into a tumor.
Chris Kilham
#25. It was surreal to see such normalcy in the midst of my personal crisis. The horses still raced. The vendors still served food. The world did not stop because I had a brain tumor.
Sally Stap
#26. It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#27. Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.
Georges Bernanos
#28. To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#29. It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Edward Dahlberg
#30. I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.
Jim Harrison
#31. I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead.
Woody Allen
#33. Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.
Kathryn Joosten
#34. It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.
Katie Couric
#35. I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.
Sandy Duncan
#36. The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]
Dante Alighieri
#37. The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off (but which self is the tumor?). Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.
Jonathan Ames
#38. You're a member of the collective! You're a member of the collective!' That's right. But only while he's alive. When the time comes for him to die, we release him from the collective. He may be a member, but he has to die alone. It's only he who is saddled with the tumor, not the whole collective.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#39. The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and ... installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world ... Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime.
Ali Khamenei
#40. But Paul has a problem. He has a tumor in the right frontal lobe of his brain, about the size of a hen's egg.
John Grisham
#41. Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect it very, very early, so that it won't kill anybody. We'll zap it at the molecular level decades before it grows into a tumor.
Michio Kaku
#42. Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba said. "I work always. In Afghanistan I work, in America I work. Thank you very much, Mrs. Dobbins, but I don't like it free money." ... Baba walked out of the welfare office like a man cured of a tumor.
Khaled Hosseini
#43. If you question whether abortion should be seen as different from removing a tumor, then you must hate women.
Greg Gutfeld
#44. Brain tumor survivors,don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You are in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.
Rachel Grady
#45. Once in a while a lung disease tumor can't be come to by bronchoscopy or needle techniques. In these cases, the best way to get a biopsy is with an operation.
Cancercenter
#46. He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.
Stephen King
#47. Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease - they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.
Dan Brown
#48. Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.
Elizabeth Holmes
#49. He put the x-ray up on the light screen: The tumor was a large white circle in the middle of the picture. It looked like a headlight coming straight at me, full-speed ahead.
Mike Lingenfelter
#50. If I did have a tumor, I would name it Marla. Marla, the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you would stop tonguing it, but you can't.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. Probably all of us have random rogue cancer cells floating around in our bodies but by and large, in the majority of cases, our immune system circulates and acts as a surveillance mechanism and kills off those few tumor cells.
Laurie Glimcher
#52. When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up.
Dean Koontz
#53. We are still groping perhaps, but we grope intelligently, like a gynecologist feeling a tumor.
Vladimir Nabokov
#54. I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.
Mary Roach
#55. Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.
Geoffrey West
#56. The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.'
William Doyle
#57. I gave up meat when I was twelve. & One day I was cutting up a chicken for my mom, and I hit a tumor with the knife. There was pus and blood all over the place. That was enough for me.
Josh Hartnett
#58. When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.
Lewis B. Smedes
#59. Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.
Dave DeBronkart
#60. The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.
Vladimir Nabokov
#61. Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.
James Lovelock
#62. It was the continuance of things that crushed her already broken heart. The gears of the world turning on while she lived with his absence like a black tumor in her chest, the grief so potent she could barely bring herself to breathe.
Blake Crouch
#63. Goddamnit, in your Love Fever
I am suffering from Heart Tumor
You must be adept ... you Pretty Charmer
I am falling for you ... in this Indian Summer
Heenashree Khandelwal
#64. I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.
Mark Ruffalo
#65. I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he had a brain tumor. And I asked him, 'but, do you send people for radiation?' and he said, of course. 'I'd be drummed out of the hospital if I didn't.
Ralph W. Moss
#66. Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Christopher Hitchens
#67. You should see the eyes of some of those children when I say to them we're going to have to open your head up and take out this tumor. They're not happy about it, believe me. And they don't like me very much at that point. But later on, they love me.
Benjamin Carson
#68. The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell
#69. Yeah. I'd fight demons for her. I'd fight the darkness in me, the sickness. I'd fight that damn tumor. And I'd live. Because I sure as hell wanted a 2014 with that girl in my arms.
Rachel Van Dyken
#70. he was surgically removing a malignant tumor that I'd been carrying around for years. A tumor that had been eating away at my insides. A tumor that, with his words, suddenly was gone. You
Kristen Ashley
#71. Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
Cynthia Kenyon
#72. Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.
Chris Smith
#73. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
Jack London
#74. I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.
Lauryn Hill
#76. When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor.
Lissa Rankin
#77. As a precaution, Ruth had also gnawed over the worst possibilities - brain tumor, Alzheimer's, stroke - believing this would ensure that it was not these things. History had always proven that she worried for nothing.
Amy Tan
#78. Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.
John Green
#79. You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth.
Arj Barker
#80. A scan showed that a benign brain tumor was pressing on her right frontal lobe. In terms of operative risk, it was the best kind of tumor to have, and the best place to have it; surgery would almost certainly eliminate her seizures. The alternative was a lifetime on toxic antiseizure medications.
Paul Kalanithi
#81. It's as if everyone got cancer the day I was diagnosed, except I'm their tumor.
Danielle Esplin
#82. It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.
J.D. Salinger
#83. I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.
Eric Davis
#84. The moment of your greatest joy sustains:
Not axe nor hammer
Tumor, tremor
Can take it away, and it remains
It remains
Joanna Newsom
#85. That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'
Jim Carrey
#86. The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams
#87. There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#88. I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead.
Woody Allen
#89. If we didn't kill the tumor, we killed the patient. - William Moloney on the early days of chemotherapy
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#90. I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
Isabel Allende
#91. Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out of control. That is why good people get sick and get hurt as much as anyone.
Harold S. Kushner
#92. My sister Amy lives above a deaf girl and has learned quite a bit of sign language. She taught some to me and so now I am able to say, SANTA HAS A TUMOR IN HIS HEAD THE SIZE OF AN OLIVE. MAYBE IT WILL GO AWAY TOMORROW BUT I DON'T THINK SO.
David Sedaris
#93. For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.
Bernard Holland
#94. Have it in your heart and have it in your head. Let the Word of Christ dwell richly in you. Because when someone looks you in the eyes and says your five-year-old daughter has a cancerous tumor the size of a Nerf football, you better know some Bible.
Britt Merrick
#95. Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'
Christopher Hitchens
#96. Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically.
Bashar Al-Assad
#97. Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.
Paul Stamets
#98. [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)
Stephen Batchelor
#99. You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.
O.R. Melling
#100. If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.
June Goodfield
