Quotes About Cancer

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

My mom was actually diagnosed with breast cancer when I was five.

My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right?

Live today as if you don't have tomorrow: my husband was diagnosed and killed by cancer within six months.

When I was diagnosed with cancer at age 22, I learned just how much cancer affects families when it affects individuals.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

It was a huge shock when my mum was diagnosed. She was 49 when she found a lump in one of her breasts and sensed something was wrong. At the time, we did a breast cancer campaign together. I still do a lot of charity runs.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.

Who wants to get a worse diagnosis of their cancer, just to keep a human doctor in the job?

Since my article in 'Women's Health' came out, I have had so many conversations with women about their own battles with cancer, and it feels so empowering to open up this dialogue and learn from each other.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

Broccoli is incredible. It can prevent DNA damage and metastatic cancer spread; activate defences against pathogens and pollutants; help to prevent lymphoma; boost the enzymes that detox your liver; target breast cancer stem cells; and reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression.

Imagine being able to predict and prevent cancer before it starts. If we gather the world's talent and expertise in a committed, targeted effort, great progress is possible.

When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.

Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

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

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