Quotes About Cancer

Venedig war ein Krebsgeschwür, das gezielt seine eigenen Metastasen plante.

now had a cure for all forms of cancer, which had eradicated the disease in a matter of weeks.

Qué es el cáncer?", pensó. "Pues un atentado terrorista cometido por Dios. Qué hace Dios si no cometer atentados como protesta ante...algo, algo tan elevado y trascendente que ni siquiera alcanzamos a captarlo?

What is cancer, he thought to himself, if not a terrorist attack from above? What is it that God is doing, if not terrorizing us in protest against...something. Something so lofty and transcendental that it is beyond our grasp?

Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.

Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won't seem to go away.

Cancer magnifies the in-betweenness of young adulthood: You're not a child anymore, yet you're not fully ready to live in the adult world, either. After my diagnosis, I moved back into my childhood bedroom. And as I get sicker, I increasingly rely on my parents to take care of me.

For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett's greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life - against cancer.

The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.

There's no denying that cancer is a gloomy subject. We repeat positive phrases to ourselves as a sort of mantra. And while positive thinking alone can't cure cancer, attitude is critical to getting through the process and growing as a person.

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live. As with so many immature individuals of all living kinds, everything they do is excessive and uncoordinated with the needs or constraints of their neighbors... they are reproductive but not productive.

Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

Fighting cancer taught me more than I ever could have imagined, but I've beaten it.

I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?

It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.

Americans are grossly deficient in basic micronutrients and especially those phytochemicals that arm our immune system to fight cancer.

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.

I started Athletes vs Cancer as a way to honor my mother, but now giving back has become a part of who I am, and more importantly, this is a key value I hope to pass on to my own sons.

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.