Top 1200 Cancer Patients Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on November 29, 2024.
In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
When you are talking to a dog about cancer, there are no judgments or taboos.
There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.
I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.
Envy grew like a cancer, deep and invasive.
The account he gives of nurses beats everything that even I know of. This young prophet says that they are all drunkards, without exception, Sisters and all, and that there are but two whom the surgeon can trust to give the patients their medicines.
Appearing on TV as a plastic surgeon showcases your talents and that increases demand. We're very busy. The negative thing is that sometimes patients think you can work magic, which, of course, you cannot.
When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving.
Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.
There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.
From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary.
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Man becomes weak or ill by accident as a consequence of the lack of resources. Even the most severally ill patients must be treated with the aim of restoring their health.
My mother has battled breast cancer three times.
No cancer is going to tell me when my time is up.
I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.
I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.
Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.
Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.
HIV/AIDs patients depend on highly trained, specialized physicians. Each and every patient has a unique combination of retrovirals they depend on to keep them alive.
If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
Affordability is critical so that patients have access to medicines. At the same time, it's also important that we have the kind of incentives that allow us to do the kinds of studies that we need to do to go after these diseases like Alzheimer's.
I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.
It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.
You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
I'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer.
When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.
There was endometrial tissue outside of where it belonged, and the cancer developed from that.
I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.
Otis Brawley is one of America's truly outstanding physician scientists. In How We Do Harm, he challenges all of us-- physicians, patients, and communities-- to recommit ourselves to the pledge to 'do no harm.'
I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.
I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.
Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.
I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.
If you eliminate wheat from your diet, you're no longer hungry between meals because you've cut out the appetite stimulant, and consequently you lose weight very quickly. I've seen this with thousands of patients.
Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone's home.
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
When we harness the ability to turn connections into data and then into knowledge, we can empower citizens, patients, and professionals to prevent disease, avoid or better manage health crises, and even save lives.
Every era casts cancer in its own image.
Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.
You survive cancer but you have still got the emotional baggage.
Patients would be better off if states were able to tailor the benefits that Medicaid covers - targeting resources to sicker people and giving healthy adults cheaper, basic coverage.
You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'
My mom was actually diagnosed with breast cancer when I was five.
Despite the growing evidence of health benefits associated with coffee consumption, I still don't recommend my patients drink it - not because it's not healthy, but because there are even healthier choices.
Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.
It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.
