Quotes About Cancer

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.

Eating well is a lifelong priority. My appreciation for cooking and healthy living came from watching my best friend die from liver cancer in 2008. I realized that I needed to make some big changes if I wanted to be around for a long time, so now I'm more cautious of how much I eat, what I'm eating, and how often.

National Cancer Prevention Day, Feb. 4, is a great opportunity to focus our attention on what should be an American priority.

I've had cancer four times. But you know, God has blessed me, and I feel so honored and so privileged in the blessings of life.

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

It took four days from discovering I had cancer to finding out how serious the problem was.

Many people may automatically associate breast cancer with women only, but that is a huge misconception because this disease does not discriminate.

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

Mary Lasker was an entrepreneur; she was a socialite. She was kind of a legendary networker. She became interested in saying, 'Well, you know, if these diseases don't have political support we'll never conquer them.' And she made, really, cancer her special cause.

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

I lost my wife to cancer and I saw the impact of telling my story - this is what happened, this is what God did and why he was faithful.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.

We're living in an age where new technology offers gigantic upsides - artificial intelligence has the potential to diagnose cancer, catch serial killers and reduce prison populations.

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

The doctors found evidence of cancer but were unsure of their diagnosis and delayed telling him until February 1905.

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.