Quotes About Cancer

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive.

Every year pancreatic cancer kills more than 35,000 people in America—it's the fourth leading cause of cancer death.

The Etiquette of Illness, a book from 2004 by a social worker and psychotherapist named Susan Halpern, who is herself a cancer survivor. The subtitle is What to Say When You Can't Find the Words. But it's really about what to do when you feel scared that doing something, if it turns out to be the wrong thing, might be worse than doing nothing at all.

The obvious thing is to think about what we could remove from our diet. But I took a completely opposite approach and began asking: What could we be adding to our diet that could boost the body's defense system? In other words, can we eat to starve cancer?

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.

Perhaps," he continued, "this capacity for evil is in all of us, then, and it's largely down to fortune whether we encounter the circumstance that breathes life into it or not. Just as it's luck that determines when or if that faulty gene breaks and gives you cancer or Marfan or the physique of an Olympian.

Alors, ce que je dis, c'est que le cancer, c'est rien, Rakel. Tu vas mourir de honte aussi, et je te promets que ce sera pire que tout. Je veillerai personnellement à ce que toutes les saloperies que t'as faites soient étalées au grand jour, et que ce soit là tout le souvenir que tu laisseras. Tu vas crever dans ta propre merde.

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

One day to see that headline, not that someone won a basketball championship, but to see that a cure for cancer has been found, will be a great day for mankind.

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.