Quotes About Cancer

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

the longer I've lived with cancer, the more my definition of toughness has changed. I used to think not crying meant you were tough. Now I think crying means you're tough. It means you're strong enough to be honest and vulnerable. It means you're not pretending. And not pretending, being able to let your guard down and show people how you truly feel and admit that you're a wuss, is one of the toughest things a person can do.

I don't like to use the words batting or fighting when talking about cancer. It suggests that there are only two outcomes: winning and losing. If you don't get well, then you are a loser. If you have decided to stop treatment, you are giving up. That's nonsense....It is not a fair fight. Not even close. It is simple biology. You get treatment and you get better. Or you don't. And neither outcome is an indication of your strength as a person.

Conversely, the (social and individual) positive effect sizes for homework and scholastic achievement, calcium intake and bone mass, and self-examination and extent of breast cancer are actually smaller than the effect size for the adverse association of aggressive and antisocial behavior with exposure to violent television and film portrayals. Thus, the media effect sizes stand up quite well when compared with those for other effects whether the focus is on undesired or desirable outcomes.

And what happened when an individual cell became selfish and exhibited Nietzsche's will to power? It became a cancer. The cell would break free of the restraints on its own division and become immortal—for a while—until its very immortality choked the entire organism to death, killing the selfish cell in the process.

Such exponential growth does not occur in the natural world, except maybe for cancer—and that growth ceases once the host has been consumed.

My patients joke with me. They ask me, 'Doctor, am I living longer yet' I say, 'I don't know, but you're living better.' The goal in our groups is not to pretend you're going to make your cancer go away but to live well in the face of cancer.

When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor.

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful.

I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

Ninety-seven percent of the time, chemotherapy does not work and continues to be used only for one reason—doctors and pharmaceutical companies make money from it. That's the only reason chemotherapy

Cristina Sanchez of Complutense University of Madrid has found that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana, kills cancer cells without damaging healthy cells.

show that THC has "potent anti-cancer activity," and can significantly "target and switch off" pathways that allow cancers to grow.