A Quote by Arlen Specter

I beat a brain tumor.

Arlen Specter

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Beat Brain Brain Tumor Tumor

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Arlen Specter
American - Politician
February 12, 1930 - October 14, 2012

I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.

Mark Ruffalo

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

Jonathan Ames

What specialists try to do is get at least three imaging processes that are totally different from each other. Then you can run these through a computer program and make a composite image. In one scenario you suspect a brain tumor, so you image the brain tumor with PET scans, MRIs, and CT scans and create a 3D model. The doctor opens up the skull to excise the cancer, but they can't see anything. Do you cut out what's supposed to be in that spot or not? The current story is yes, you believe the images over what you see with your eyes.

Don Ihde

I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.

Lou Gramm

You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.

O.R. Melling

See what? I didn’t see anything. There were no scary people there. Nothing freaky. I’m going home now and tomorrow I’m going to have the doctors check for a brain tumor. Full battery of tests. Whole nine yard. Whatever’s wrong with me, we’ll find it and deal with it. At this point, my vote is either tumor or space alien testing. Either one works for me. (Geary)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

J. D. Salinger

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

Jim Harrison

I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.

Tionne Watkins

I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he had a brain tumor. And I asked him, 'but, do you send people for radiation?' and he said, of course. 'I'd be drummed out of the hospital if I didn't.

Ralph W. Moss

I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.

Tionne Watkins

If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor.

June Goodfield

The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors.

Shannon O'Brien

Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.