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Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.
Author:
April Winchell
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Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.
Author:
David Wilkerson
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I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.
Author:
Marcia Wallace
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Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.
Author:
Grete Waitz
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In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
Author:
Grete Waitz
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I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.
Author:
Grete Waitz
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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.
Author:
Grete Waitz
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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
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And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Author:
Jim Valvano
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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
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Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Author:
Jim Valvano
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Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
Author:
Arlen Specter
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If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.
Author:
Arlen Specter
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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.
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Olympia Snowe
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I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.
Author:
Erika Slezak
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In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
Author:
Ike Skelton
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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
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I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Author:
Allyson Schwartz
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And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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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
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I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
Author:
Jonas Salk
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This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.
Author:
Charlotte Ross
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Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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Cancer is just a horrible disease.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
Author:
Jodi Rell
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Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.
Author:
Lynn Redgrave
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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
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A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
Author:
James Randi
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We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.
Author:
Jon Porter
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My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
Author:
Sarah Polley
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Author:
Harold Pinter
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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
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Author:
Petrarch
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Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Author:
Linus Pauling
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I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.
Author:
Mary Mobley
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Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
Author:
Kylie Minogue
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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
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The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
Author:
George McGovern
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Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.
Author:
Bruce McCulloch
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I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
Author:
Rue McClanahan
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Author:
Herbie Mann
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Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it.
Author:
Herbie Mann
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But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.
Author:
Herbie Mann
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Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer.
Author:
Drew Lewis
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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.
Author:
Matthew Lesko
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Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
Author:
James Larkin
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I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.
Author:
Michael Landon
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If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.
Author:
Nicholas Kristof
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More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Author:
Joseph Kennedy
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I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
Author:
Michael Jackson
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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
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Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
Author:
Chris Hollen
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A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.
Author:
Lee Haney
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With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.
Author:
Lee Haney
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Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
Author:
David Hackworth
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I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.
Author:
Julie Gold
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I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
Author:
Mel Gibson
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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
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SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.
Author:
Lynette Fromme
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With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
Author:
Cathy Freeman
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Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle.
Author:
Dennis Franz
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Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
Author:
Dick Francis
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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.
Author:
Terry Fox
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
Author:
B. Forbes
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I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.
Author:
Geraldine Ferraro
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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
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I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
Author:
Melissa Etheridge
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Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.
Author:
Andrew Eschenbach
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The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.
Author:
Gordon England
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
Author:
Elizabeth Edwards
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A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.
Author:
Don Drysdale
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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
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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.
Author:
Lesley-Anne Down
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Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world.
Author:
Rosa DeLauro
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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
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One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.
Author:
Len Dawson
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If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.
Author:
Len Dawson
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'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
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I think governments are the cancer of civilization.
Author:
Chuck D.
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I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
Author:
Cindy Crawford
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Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
Author:
Larry Craig
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I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
Author:
Judy Collins
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All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.
Author:
Ornette Coleman
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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
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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
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My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
Author:
John Cameron
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In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.
Author:
John Cameron
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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.
Author:
John Cameron
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Understanding how DNA transmits all it knows about cancer, physics, dreaming and love will keep man searching for some time.
Author:
David Brower
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If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
Author:
Paul Boyer
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As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.
Author:
Lindy Boggs
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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
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Author:
Ingrid Bergman
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Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.
Author:
Warren Beatty
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When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.
Author:
David Baltimore
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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
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.
Author:
Loni Anderson
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We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.
Author:
Greg Anderson
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I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong.
Author:
Greg Akcelrod
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Author:
Edward Abbey
