Cancer is a cosmic slap in the face. You either get discouraged or ennobled by it.
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.
I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.
Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.
The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it.
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone.
I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.
The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?
When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative".
I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.
Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.
In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves.
I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.
Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.
I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .
Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.
My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.
'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment.
I fall down all the time because I'm such a klutz, but I have never broken a bone, and I don't eat milk or cheese ever. I like tofu cheese and soymilk in my coffee and cereal.
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.
I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.
I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.
My sister and mom are both cancer survivors. If they're going to whip it, so am I.
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.
Cancer can take a long time to develop and necessarily has multiple causes.
People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
I am so very proud to do whatever I can do in the fight against cancer with WWE.
Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.
I'm not going to criticise Nick Boles because he fought off cancer.
Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.
If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.
True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine. Strong affections for God rooted in thrush are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.
Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.
Price gouging for drugs that treat cancer in children is simply unconscionable.
We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.
I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.
Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient.
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.
If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer.
Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away.
Today, my brother and I share almost identical DNA, the result of a successful bone marrow transplant I had last April using his healthy stem cells. But Adam and I couldn't be more different.
After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.
What's great is that there are a lot of brands - like Thom Browne, Michael Bastian, and Rag & Bone - but they're all doing their own thing. That's what's important: to remain true to your own DNA.
I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, 'I've beaten it. You can, too.'
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