Quotes About Cancer

People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

When I went public with my breast cancer diagnosis six weeks ago, the overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support really helped me heal faster. I want to make sure to thank everyone.

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.

I never intended on starting a charity; I never intended on cancer, health, and wellness becoming my life.

I just take it day by day, and I hope one day I can say I feel good - not just be cancer free, but just feel good. I'm just living every day to the fullest: I enjoy myself, I have fun, and I pray every day that it doesn't come back.

I am a cancer patient, and I continue to fight with the hope that a cure may be just around the corner. I am grateful to my family, friends, loved ones, and to fans that I am in their thoughts and prayers. That support gives me great hope.

I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.

I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.

I keep working out for me, but I also keep working out for my daughters. I want Taelor and Sydni to know that I'm still strong. I want to walk them both down the aisle. And I still plan to. I hope to. I don't know. That's what cancer robs you of. Cancer robs you of the ability to look past today.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I was 11 years old.

I've always covered up in the sun and it seemed so ridiculous that I developed cancer despite taking precautions.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

I want to make people aware of early detection.

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

My mom was diagnosed at the age of 46 with ovarian cancer.

My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer when she was 47.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.