My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.
Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it.
It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.
The Cancer Society here in Nova Scotia is doing nothing, and money is being wasted. I would love to get my hands on the people in Halifax.
Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.
In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.
Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign!
I think obviously when you're first diagnosed with cancer you definitely panic and that your mind races and thinks the worst but I was extremely lucky.
I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.
My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.
I'm well aware of the health dangers of an expanding waistline and belly fat: diabetes, heart disease, stroke, even cancer.
My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.
My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.
The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.
Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.
We think till the last minute that nothing can happen to us. But cancer will grab you by surprise, and then it's too late.
While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.
If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.
My name is Rene Angelil, throat cancer survivor, artist manager, and I am also known as Celine Dion's husband.
All of the reality TV I've done has usually been simultaneously an opportunity to create awareness or raise funds for my mom's breast cancer organization.
In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
"Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth." ... I found my brand. Just don't get the ones that say, "Lung Cancer."
Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.
Too many days, that awful, despicable, rude, ruthless bully called cancer has knocked on the door of those I love.
To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.
Cancer has been the No. 1 cause of death during the last half-century. The trend is getting even worse as the average life span increases.
What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
When my dad died, I was eight. Becky was seven. My mum had cancer, the first of two bouts that she's fought and beaten.
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.
The anointing, which is God's power, comes on me... I can actually feel it. And people start getting healed. From the cancer, the pain is gone.
Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.
It's so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.
The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.
I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.
My estimate is that about 94,000 cancer fatalities for the future are being induced with each year of medical diagnostic X-rays (in US).
There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife's brain tumour operation, my father's cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018.
We chose it's name [Give the People What They Want] a while ago, long before the cancer. But I can't think of a more fitting title.
Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.
Beating cancer is personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touch wood.
Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.
It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.
When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.
I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.
We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.
I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.
Cancer definitely rekindled my spirit. It made me realise that every human being has the capacity to overcome a huge setback.
I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.
I think that communalism is the cancer of our society, and if we have to protect the humanity and the unity and integrity of this country, then we will have to fight the communal forces.
Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
I think the word 'yips' trivialises it; it is completely debilitating, like a cancer spreading through your game and just destroying it.
With cancer affecting one in three people, all of us will, at some point in our lives, experience it - either personally or through a loved one.
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.
Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.
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