Top 1200 Terminal Cancer Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.

Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit... towards the area where there's no return, it stays, then there's no turning back.

The system designed to study, diagnose and treat cancer in the United States is broken, and it is in urgent need of reform.

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

I lost my wife to cancer and I saw the impact of telling my story - this is what happened, this is what God did and why he was faithful.

What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.

When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it.

The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.

Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.

Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.

USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Then, when my dad was diagnosed with cancer, I started to notice this crazy transformation, where he fell desperately in love with Jesus.

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of the genetic mutation that exists.

My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up.

We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

I remember when I was a child, the word cancer absolutely struck fear into everyones hearts. It was like a death sentence.

When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.

I've been a lucky man. I've only faced one real tragedy: the death of my wife, Maggie, from cancer in 1995.

After being diagnosed with cancer, one is in a lot of fear and anxiety about the anticipated pain and the painful treatment.

I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.

Like many men, I had never thought of testicular cancer and was lazy at getting check-ups.

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.

It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it all kind of comes home.

Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.

I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

One in 10 women will get breast cancer at some stage in their life and that's quite a scary thought.

You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.

I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

Breast cancer is not just a woman's issue - it affects all of us: the brothers, husbands, fathers, children and friends.

Three of the most beneficial, longevity promoting anti-cancer foods are green vegetables, beans, and onions.

Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.

Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment.

Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I think that research is incredibly important and hopefully one day there will be a cure for cancer. They are making great strides.

India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me. Being of Jewish descent in England always carried a vague sense of being foreign, while not being a practicing Jew made it hard to think of myself as fully Jewish either. So living here in a way just clarifies that terminal outsider position - makes it somehow official, which I like.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.