Top 1200 Cancer Patients Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative".

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.

My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.

Green tea is known to have catechins, and that has a powerful anti-cancer effect.

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

It was a mutual thing. I made a deal with them: I asked them if they did not bring out the place card of Malachi, I would let them have two minutes with each one of my patients.

Having been a caregiver more times than I care to count, 'StandWith' lets caregivers and patients easily update their community and post targeted tasks that community members can accept.

Cancer can take a long time to develop and necessarily has multiple causes.

There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the laboratory, and there is certainly nothing in the clinics available to patients.

Within every patient there resides a doctor, and we as physicians are at our best when we we put our patients in touch with the doctor inside themselves.

But no conversation between doctor and patient can magically turn an uninsured patient into an insured one. Doctors are just as helpless as patients when it comes to solving the problems of the uninsured.

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

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.

My sister and mom are both cancer survivors. If they're going to whip it, so am I.

Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

My daughter had cancer in both eyes - and we could save just one.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?

I have a platform to be able to do something to help other people beat cancer.

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers.

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

If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I'd be dead.

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

For decades now, [Fuller] Torrey has been warning America what would happen if the dangerously mentally ill were deinstitutionalized, and it's all come true. Today, the only place we can put mental patients is on MSNBC.

Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how’re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter’s-patients.

For patients to be safe, we need doctors to be able to reflect completely openly and freely about what they have done, to learn from mistakes, to spread best practice around the system, to talk openly with their colleagues.

funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.

If they could say that to their patients, it could be a way to treatment, as in both working on it and preserving it. That could give a patient the faith to fully experience that beauty, without reliving the torment.

Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

If you have a pap smear every year, there's no reason to develop cervical cancer.

We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.

The journalist cannot create his subjects any more than the analyst can create his patients.

The nanofibrillar scaffolds designed to guide the process of cellular repopulation is an important step towards prolonging life and enhancing the quality of life for patients with advanced heart disease with defective valve.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

I find that low protein diets often contribute to improvement in patients with immune system problems ... In fact, it would be hard to become deficient in protein in our country even if you tried.

The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.

I would never ever joke, kid, or use cancer as an excuse.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

I am so very proud to do whatever I can do in the fight against cancer with WWE.

The Health Commissioner has given us good advice. It's smarter to keep the COVID patients separate. You don't want a person who goes into a hospital with one situation developing COVID because they happened to be exposed.

Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.

I've turned down a lot of proposed scripts for Scrubs episodes, mainly ones with AIDs patients. It sickens me, really. If you don't want AIDs, don't be a ice cream man. Or African. I'm neither and I'm fine.