Cancer Quotes

I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.

Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

All minorities think they're immune, but we're absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It's a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

Cancer isn't going to slow me down.

I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

Cancer is very chaotic.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I've never got ill is that I'm not stressed.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

'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.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

I would love to start a cancer organization.

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer.

Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

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

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

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

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.

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

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it.

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.

An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.