Quotes About Cancer

Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the only factor. Lifestyle choices may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer, but that knowledge is an opportunity to empower ourselves, not to blame.

I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

I'm not an intensely mystical person. I don't do numerology. I'm a Cancer, but that's as far as I go.

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

You've heard it all right. People don't have cancer: They are reported to be battling cancer.

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic.

Except that cancer isn't so … considerate.

The banality of cancer seems to irk him almost as much as its lethality. Lacking any dialectical substance, it affords few opportunities to escape platitude or avoid cliché. It's a big subject, but it's essentially small talk

AND you lose weight but cancer isn't interested in eating your flab. It wants your muscle.

Monoclonal antibodies are molecules engineered to restore, boost, or mimic the immune system's attack on alien cells. The first one was approved for dealing with acute transplant rejection, but anticancer and anti-inflammatory therapies are now most common, and in 2020 the FDA authorized two compounds for the treatment of COVID-19.

I look at him, loving this child of mine and knowing my death will devastate him. I don't want him to watch me die by degrees. I don't want that for his daughters, either. I know what it is like; some images, once seen, can never be forgotten. I want them to remember me as I am, not as I will be when the cancer has had its way.

want them to remember me as I am, not as I will be when the cancer has had its way.

I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

If a person is continually stressed, the stress uses up the immune system and there's nothing left to fight cancer. (Research has shown that children who suffer abuse are about 50 percent more likely to get cancer than other children.)

He pointed out that the unconscious never cares for the facts. "It only knows what abandonment feels like." He emphasized that the unconscious doesn't acknowledge the reality (the fact that my father had an inoperable cancer and died), but it does acknowledge the emotional impact (I was abandoned). My unconscious had registered the fear of having to take over a fractured, poor family.

fight cancer. (Research has shown that children who suffer abuse are about 50 percent more likely to get cancer than other children.)

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

Does your hate make you happy, my dear, or does it continually eat through you, a cancer of its own making? Does the constant fueling of that angry fire not exhaust you and take away from living the wonderful life you've been given?

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

It is a mystery not of the unsolved but soluble type, like the problem of the cause of cancer, but of quite another type.

Time is relative, Einstein tells us. It's an artificial construct that we have created to remind us that we are finite, mortal. The universe doesn't wear a wristwatch. And thankfully, I decided to stop wearing one the day I found out I had terminal cancer." --My Own Personal Singularity

There is a significant body of research that goes beyond telling us that weight does not really matter all that much, to suggest that carrying a few extra pounds, over and above the weights currently being recommended, may actually have health benefits, resulting in reduced risk of many diseases and disorders that affect quality as well as length of life. These diseases include lung cancer, the number-one cause of cancer deaths among men and women, premenopausal breast cancer, and osteoporosis.