Quotes on Cancer

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

Author: Loni Anderson

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

Author: Darren Aronofsky

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

Author: Corbin Bernsen

In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

Author: John Cameron

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Author: George Carman

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

Author: Michael Castle

'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.

Author: Len Dawson

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.

Author: John Dean

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Author: Jerry Doyle

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

Author: Melissa Etheridge

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Author: Brett Favre

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

Author: B. Forbes

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

Author: Uri Geller

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

Author: Mel Gibson

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

Author: Kathy Griffin

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

Author: Anjelica Huston

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

Author: Michael Jackson

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

Author: Michael Landon

Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.

Author: Drew Lewis

You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist.

Author: Tom McCall

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Author: Michael McCaul

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

Author: Michael McCaul

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

Author: Rue McClanahan

Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better.

Author: Michael Milken

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

Author: Mary Mobley

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

Author: Harold Pinter

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

Author: Harold Pinter

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

Author: James Randi

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

Author: Lynn Redgrave

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Author: Jodi Rell

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

Author: Kevin Richardson

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

Author: Kevin Richardson

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

Author: Jonas Salk

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

Author: Debbie Schultz

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

Author: John Simon

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

Author: Olympia Snowe

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

Author: Jim Valvano

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.

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

Author: David Wilkerson