Quotes About Cancer

She hadn't expected to experience this pleasure in her grief, to find it invigorating, in a way. But even as she's dying, she's realized, life goes on—even as the cancer invades her body, she still checks Twitter. At first she thought, Why would I waste even ten minutes of the time I have left checking Twitter? And then she thought, Why wouldn't I? I like Twitter!

I'm one of those people who other people like but never remember. I think most of the world is probably like me. Until recently nothing about me was outstanding, and then my mother got cancer. It's a disease people like to talk about, so I'm more popular now. And when I flip through magazines, I read the breast cancer articles first, even before the numerology column.

Mihalovic and other critics claim that chemotherapy, in actuality, boosts cancer growth and long-term mortality rates by destroying the immune system, increasing neurocognitive decline, disrupting endocrine functioning, and causing organ and metabolic toxicities. Patients basically live in a permanent state of disease until their death.

Perhaps this is because, as suspicious researchers have observed, more people are making a living off cancer than dying from it.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

So the list went, a fair percentage collecting both welfare and dust, moldering in the stale air of subsidized apartments as their testes shriveled day by day, consumed by the metastasizing cancer called assimilation and susceptible to the hypochondria of exile.

consumed by the metastasizing cancer called assimilation and susceptible to the hypochondria of exile.

The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.

'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.

In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

Wealth and power at the expense of nature were an inevitably lethal cancer. But there seemed to be no gentle way to convince cancer to practice moderation.

Melatonin: 20 mg melatonin nightly may double response rates and rates of survival at 1 year in a variety of stage IV cancer types. Reduces toxicity: thrombocytopenia, neurotoxicity, cardiotoxicity.

How can you not be concerned that I might have cancer?" I ask. "I found a lump on my breast." Touch it, Ely. Touch it. "Lie. Not only are you biting your lip, which you always do when you lie, but your mom told me about the alleged lump in the elevator this morning. The doctor said it was an overgrown pimple." Monkeys!

Or his conscience had been eaten away by the cancer of narcissism.

gliomatosis cerebri. It originates in the connective cells of the brain and infiltrates quickly, deeply into surrounding tissue.

Your cousin Paulie, he has prostate cancer. Who knew he's man enough to have a prostate?

Too many women are dying needlessly from ovarian cancer.

I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.