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Quotes About Cancer

I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.
~ Jennifer Saunders
Cancer can catch even the best of us off guard. Sometimes the emotions come pouring out. Sometimes they stay locked inside.
~ Suleika Jaouad
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
~ Jerry Doyle
Cancer is something that can happen to anyone, like a sportsperson who is eating right and doing his bit correctly. Cancer really takes your life away.
~ Hazel Keech
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
~ Paul Davies
I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.
~ Arlen Specter
So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
~ Ted Deutch
I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.
~ James D. Watson
Growing and aging populations are putting increased pressure on health-care systems that are already buckling under the burden of chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes.
~ Frans van Houten
When you are talking to a dog about cancer, there are no judgments or taboos.
~ Suleika Jaouad
I didn't say a pulsed electro-magnetic field cures cancer. I don't believe it does. All I said is that it will help tackle cancer.
~ Noel Edmonds
I believe pulsed electromagnetism has a role to play in tackling cancer and I will always believe that.
~ Noel Edmonds
My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.
~ Stanley Tucci
One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.
~ Joe Torre
The little things I used to take for granted before I don't take for granted anymore. This whole situation has evolved me into a better person. Mentally, I'm much stronger, I'm more loving. I'm a man now. Cancer has played a huge role into making me into this person.
~ Daniel Jacobs
In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
~ Abraham Verghese
Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.
~ Olivia Newton-John
It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.
~ Robin Roberts
Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about.
~ Yael Cohen
It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.
~ Peter Andre
I have no regrets. I had an amazing surrogate who carried my son for me. I am so grateful to her. I can even say I am grateful for having cancer. I was always meant to be a mom, but if I didn't have cancer, I never would have had Zev. I would have had a kid, but not Zev, and I want Zev - tantrums and all.
~ Marissa Jaret Winokur
Let me tell you, having cancer sucks, but being broke and having cancer is the shittiest fate that can land on a human being.
~ Richard Kadrey
Yes!" he yells like he just cured cancer. He even smiles when he looks at me. "Remember my streaming service?" "You mean your betrayal of all movie rental shops ever? I remember.
~ Richard Kadrey
This time everyone has the best intentions. You have cancer.
~ Richard Siken