Quotes About Cancer

We believe that such a significant increase in longevity is due to the protective effect against cancer produced by caloric restriction - incidences fall by 40 percent if we compare them with the mice that produce more telomerase and have a normal diet - and, added to the presence of longer telomeres, this makes the mice live longer and better.

My own cancer experience has taught me that the most comforting words from friends have often been both the simplest and the most honest.

The hardly noticeable symptoms of cancer pale in comparison to those produced by the surgeons determined to excise it.

The experts agree with them about the importance of the quality of the debulking: "there is absolutely nothing the doctor can influence, including choosing the type of chemotherapy, that affects a woman's chance of surviving her ovarian cancer as much as the quality of her initial surgery . . . Sadly, however, only between 30 and 50 percent of the women with ovarian cancer in any given geographic region will have optimal surgery." I

Like other diseases that arouse feelings of shame, AIDS is often a secret, but not from the patient. A cancer diagnosis was frequently concealed from patients by their families; an AIDS diagnosis is at least as often concealed from their families by patients.

To describe a phenomenon as a cancer is an incitement to violence. The use of cancer in political discourse encourages fatalism and justifies "severe" measures.

one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer—and the other seven will know her.

The list of side effects was lengthy and horrible. Sonnet had pored over it, along with all the other literature she'd hastily devoured, searching for grains of hope. The worst part of chemo started after the drugs were administered.

It was uncertain. She was in her early forties. Breast cancer. No one could identify exactly how everyone had come to know this fact. Was it a fact? Some people called it rumor. But in fact there was no such thing as rumor. There was fact, and there was what did not come up in conversation.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

Usury is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Industrial cereal processing produces acrylamide. Acrylamide is a chemical compound that has been known to cause cancer in animals for many years and was classified as a probable human carcinogen in 1994.

The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.

Slavery was a deadly cancer eating into the life of the nation; but, somehow, it had cast such a glamour over us that we have acted somewhat as if our national safety were better preserved by sparing the cancer than by cutting it out.

But, you know, when a man turns fifty, the weirdest and most disappointing thing happens. Your doctor loses interest in your testicles. And takes an overwhelming interest in your arsehole. It's the strangest thing. Because the chances of testicular cancer recede as you get older, and the chances of prostate cancer increase. Isn't life a fucking bowl of cherries?

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually. It's called sin.

Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills—everything.

Reacting with our deep skin tissue, sunlight produces the vitamin D that is the greatest anticancer agent ever discovered.

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably.

Sin is like a cancer; God's presence is like radiation on that cancer.