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Quotes About Tumors

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
~ Randy Pausch
seditions and insurrections are, unhappily, maladies as inseparable from the body politic as tumors and eruptions from the natural body;
~ Alexander Hamilton
I had tumors on both ovaries, and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues.
~ Cobie Smulders
Cancer lies dormant in all of us. Like all living organisms, our bodies are making defective cells all the time. That's how tumors are born. But our bodies are also equipped with a number of mechanisms that detect and keep such cells in check.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
At the same time, it is completely unreasonable to rely only on this purely technical approach and neglect the natural capacity of our bodies to protect against tumors. We can take advantage of this natural protection to either prevent the disease or enhance the benefits of treatments.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
The first part of this book presents a new view of the mechanisms of cancer. This view is based on the fundamental but still little-known workings of the immune system, on the discovery of the inflammatory mechanisms underlying the growth of tumors, and on the possibility of blocking their spread by preventing new blood vessels from nourishing them.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
Yes, there is no hope. But remember, some fuses are duds, some tumors are benign, some heart patients recover on their own. You have time to change your life.
~ Rick DeMarinis
Adult stem cells tend not to form tumors.
~ Virginia Foxx
And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.
~ Sherman Alexie
I just have an allergic reaction to lung cancer. Gives me tumors.
~ Barry Lyga
I was actually tone deaf until I had tumors in my ears - I had very small ear canals - removed. Once they fixed that, I was actually able to sing in a pleasant manner.
~ Lauren Worsham
On the CAT scan, tumors bloomed like flowers against the charcoal desert of his duodenal lining. Into the lore of Dad's legendary stoicism would be added the fact that he spent a year treating metastatic stomach cancer with Tums.
~ Jonathan Tropper
I have a fear of things growing on things. I don't know where it came from. But I go hiking a lot, and sometimes I can't handle moss growing on trees or tumors on trees or mushrooms.
~ Lara Jean Chorostecki
I was upset, sad, angry - something! I needed to do something! I needed to feel myself, understand myself and this horrible world we are all trapped in, where bugs and tumors and viruses worm their way into our brains and lay their putrid eggs that hatch and eat us alive from the inside out.
~ Garth Stein
What the news calls people who protest PACT: Seditious subversives. Traitorous Chinese sympathizers. Tumors on American society.
~ Celeste Ng
How come they can take out tumors, but they can't take out thoughts?" I didn't know what to say. It was a question that all of us had asked at one point or another. But no one had ever come up with an answer.
~ James Patterson
Published data show that animal protein promotes the growth of tumors. Animal protein increases the levels of a hormone, IGF-1, which is a risk factor for cancer, and high-casein diets allow more carcinogens into cells, which allow more dangerous carcinogen products to bind to DNA, which allow more mutagenic reactions that give rise to cancer cells, which allow more rapid growth of tumors once they are initially formed.
~ Thomas M. Campbell II
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
~ Eric Topol
las células residuales que la cirugía deja atrás al parecer son estimuladas por las proteínas animales. Si retiramos esos alimentos de nuestra dieta, esos tumores probablemente nunca llegarán siquiera a aparecer. Come como un pobre, como le gusta decir al entrenador Joe Vigil, y solo tendrás que ver al médico en un campo de golf. —Todo
~ Christopher McDougall
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
~ Dean Koontz
We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.
~ Hunter Tylo
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
~ Dean Koontz
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
~ Harold E. Varmus
uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) have been treated, thus avoiding hysterectomies and infertility. Clinical trials for tumors of the brain, breast, pancreas and liver, as well as Parkinson's disease, arthritis
~ John Grisham