Quotes About Cancer

I had breast cancer.

One in 10 women will get breast cancer at some stage in their life and that's quite a scary thought.

Breast cancer takes the lives of many of our loved ones, and often far too soon.

Because I work on leukemia, the image of cancer I carry in my mind is that of blood. I imagine that doctors who work on breast cancer or pancreatic cancer have very different visualizations.

When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.

My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.

Men are at risk for breast cancer as well. That's absolutely true.

It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'

I lost my mum to breast cancer and my dad has beaten bowel cancer.

In one week, I got hit by a car - it busted through my hand - and my mom got cancer.

One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

For cancer patients like me, and for others who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illnesses, natural disasters don't put health on the back burner.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

Cancer doesn't care if you have suffered before.

When I got to know about my cancer, I was at the rock bottom of my life, and my work suffered for it.

Mum had a form of blood cancer. She suffered for a long time.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed.

To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someone who 'gets' cancer. I am a sun worshipper who never thought it could happen to me.