Famous Quotes & Sayings

Regular skin checkups to reduce the incidence of this deadly skin cancer must focus on those at high risk. Diagnosing melanoma early is critical to saving lives.

Registries for cancer clinical trials exist but they are not compulsory and are far from being complete. There needs to be one comprehensive database so trials can be monitored and a wealth of information can be accessed from a central place.

Our major benefactor, Harold Alfond, (would like the cancer center completed) as soon as possible,

People have expressed a keen interest in getting out there. Cancer is a big killer in this country. Any money we can raise to help scientists, doctors and researchers learn more about it and find ways to fight it the better off we are. That's our goal.

Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2, which infects the majority of the population but has no known ill effects, kills multiple types of cancer cells yet has no effect on healthy cells.

Andrew Chan

Our study did find a protective effect of long-term aspirin use on risk of invasive colorectal cancer, but only at dosage levels considerably higher than those used to prevent cardiovascular disease.

Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer deaths in the United States. That fact has held true over the last 20 or 30 years.

Our care of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer must change today,

Barry Manilow

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

B. B. King

A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.

We observed that women in the low-fat diet group had a 9 percent lower risk of breast cancer than the usual diet group, but that difference could be due to chance.

Carl Sagan

As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it. ... But a very plausible case can be made that our civilization is fundamentally threatened by the lack of adequate fertility control. Exponential increases of population will dominate any arithmetic increases, even those brought about by heroic technological initiatives, in the availability of food and resources, as Malthus long ago realized.

Benjamin Bratt

Jerry knew he had cancer when we worked together but he thought he was in complete remission,

Bill Vaughan

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

Bill Bryson

Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that is going to solve it. Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do. If anyone ever cures cancer, it will be a guy with a science degree. Or a woman with a science degree.

Bill Hicks

'Warning: Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth.'...Found MY brand! Just don't get the ones that say 'lung cancer.'

The American Cancer Society really stepped up and did their part during this natural disaster.

The American Cancer Society has it right. I do think mammograms save lives.

It is important to keep in mind that some dairy products, like whole milk and many types of cheese have a lot of saturated fat, which we know can increase the risk of heart disease and possibly other cancers. Also, many dairy products have growth factors such as insulin-like growth factor I, which have been shown to promote breast cancer cell growth. More study is needed before we can make concrete recommendations." ()

Meghan O'Rourke

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

It doesn't mean we'll have a cure for cancer, but it means many new therapies will develop.

I thought it was interesting that the treatment, not the cancer, is what actually makes you sick.

Andie MacDowell

I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

Carlos Mencia

I am a product. . . . I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

I feel like I'm lucky that I had cancer ? and that they found it. If they had found it the next year, or the year after. ... Most of the time you hear about a situation like that, they have a couple of years left to live.

If one person decides to get checked for cancer and a life is saved because we met and they heard my story, then it's worth something.

Given the complicated interplay of events and factors that go into developing cancer, we shouldn't be surprised that one food doesn't give us a clear signal. We shouldn't expect it to be so simple.

From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving in the right direction.

Kidney cancer is one of the cancers that they don't have many treatment options for and everything is pretty much experimental.

Kids who are sunburned early on in life have a greater risk of developing cancer in general of the skin.

It (cancer) didn't make me a better person. It made me think about things a little different.

I'm always dealing with my own mortality. The only gift cancer gives you is time. You can plan and say goodbye.

It is going to, for once, cause people . . . to really look at this coalition as protectionist, and recognize what a cancer they have become for NAFTA,