Quotes About Cancer

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

At this time, therefore, I must conclude that high-current electrodes might enhance the growth of any preexisting tumor cells in the electrical path—unlike low-current silver, which when negative had no effect on, and when positive suspended, mitosis of cancer cells in our lab.

Cancer was nothing more than a chapter in my life's story. It would never be my life's story.

Cancer forced me out of my comfort zone. But the reality is that in life, there are no true comfort zones. Life comes at us in ways that we can't predict or control.

Do you know that some women actually refuse to be treated for fear of losing their hair? In the words of my friend India Arie: "Hey, I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within." I wanted to make a statement that I wasn't ashamed to have cancer or be bald. I was absolutely stunned by the reaction to my video diary. The outpouring of support was overwhelming.

See the child, not the cancer. Then you'll be happy when you visit, not sad.

he assured me that God didn't make cancer because cancer is not good, and he cautioned me not to blame God for something He didn't make.

Research finds that people who eat a diet rich in animal protein carry similar cancer risk to those who smoke twenty cigarettes each day." —THE DAILY TELEGRAPH I

The celebration had to be postponed: Carol had ovarian cancer. She refused to be gloomy about it.

Cancer had a chance to break me down, but I was determined to fight back with strength and positivity.

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

The man who upsets the morphology of society is a cancer. The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

genetic workup showed I had a BRCA1 mutation, I chose to undergo chemo and have my breasts removed. (That was an aggressive course of action, and I had no regrets. My

A 2001 study from the University of Rochester Cancer Center published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management concluded that expecting nausea was the strongest predictor that patients would actually experience it.16 The researchers

A Spanish study illustrates this perfectly. Researchers at the Cancer Epigenetics Laboratory at the Spanish National Cancer Center in Madrid studied 40 pairs of identical twins, ranging in age from 3 to 74. They found that younger twins who had similar lifestyles and spent more years together had similar epigenetic patterns, while older twins, in particular those with dissimilar lifestyles who spent fewer years together, had very different epigenetic patterns.13

Imagination was a cancer of the heart. All those lives you carried around in your head that you wouldn't ever get to live—they filled you up until you couldn't breathe.

She was being erased a little at a time by a cancer that fed not on her flesh but on her inner life, on her private store of happiness.

It's a bigger pain in the ass than rectal cancer.

In spite of the weakness of the epidemiological evidence linking nitrites to cancer, and the established fact that 95 per cent of all the nitrite we ingest comes from bacterial conversion of nitrates naturally found in vegetables, many consumers have a lingering concern about eating nitrite-cured processed meats. But one person's concern is another's business opportunity.

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