Top 1200 People With Cancer Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.

If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

We cannot elect a president who provides no hope to the laid-off union worker, no hope for the mother of five and no hope for the researcher who might find a cure for cancer. We cannot elect a leader who is willfully ignorant to the outcry of young people who want real criminal justice reform and responsible gun safety legislation now.

We have equated a cancer diagnosis to 'death,' but we look at diabetes as 'something that you get when you get older.' But look at diabetes - it's the leading cause of limb amputation, heart disease, kidney failure. Many people don't equate diabetes with these other destructive things. I didn't equate it to those until I started reading about it.

Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.

There is little you can do to stop a tornado, a hurricane, or a cancer diagnosis from changing your life in an instant.

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.

The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn’t rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.

Fighting cancer taught me more than I ever could have imagined, but I've beaten it.

It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.

'The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind.

I have a cousin who, at age 36, passed away from cancer, and she left three girls.

Society does not seem prepared to accept the sacrifices required for an effective prevention of cancer.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

We all have idealism. We think we're healthy and then, all of a sudden, one day, you have cancer. The truth has a mind of its own.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

I think having the cancer allowed me to be able to freely talk about my faith.

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

I am a board member and the volunteer director of medical and scientific content for Less Cancer.

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

We separate problems with the brain into neurological and psychiatric, and it's because it's stigmatised still. Mental illness is still stigmatised. Imagine if we treated people with cancer like that. Just because your personality changes and your behaviour changes, all of a sudden you are put in a different category.

Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

I lost my mom to breast cancer about three years ago, and it has changed me forever.

Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

Raising money for research and for those suffering with cancer who can't afford treatment is very important to me.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

The crows that are predatory are something you have to deal with. For me, they also become associated with cancer cells.

It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'

I am very grateful to have beaten my cancer, but it has been tough adjusting to my new normal.

There are whole states where people [with addiction or mental health issues] can't get to a doctor. If that were true of pancreatic cancer, if that were true of heart disease, if that were true of diabetes, we'd all understand that it made no sense at all. And yet we somehow approach mental health from a very different standard.

The women with high social pressure seem to be amongst the strongest carriers of the possibility of breast cancer.

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

I was pretty depressed when I was a teenager. The thing that spurred that on was that my dad died from cancer when I was 11 years old.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

I do worry about getting skin cancer in the future - you only have to use a sunbed a handful of times.

I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

I heard those words that every woman fears and never wants to hear, 'You have breast cancer.

The virus-to-cancer connection is where medicinal mushrooms offer unique opportunities for medical research.

I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It's modeling - I didn't find the cure for cancer.