Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Leifer

Animal experiments are no joke. Thank goodness scientists are finding better, more humane ways to develop treatments for cancer and other killer diseases.

Charles W. Pickering

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

There is currently no organized system to link oncology care to primary care. Successful cancer care doesn't end when patients walk out the door after completion of their initial treatments.

Chuck D.

There is cancer research going on that we feel is viable, and through gifts like this, it will fund that research.

We used to tell people suffering from cancer to rest.

Richard G. Scott

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

Ricky Gervais

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

Ricky Gervais

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

Tom Moody

I remember Simon O'Donnell being struck with cancer during Australia's 1987 World Cup campaign. I know very well what it is like to have a teammate who has been struck with a potentially fatal disease. He fought through: managed to get himself back to 100% fitness and back to playing again.

Diane von Furstenberg

I was terrified the first time that I had a big problem in my business. I was obviously terrified when they diagnosed me with cancer in 1994. I was terrified when my son used to drive too fast. But I do believe in the fact that fear is not an option, so I always try to face it and not be afraid.

David Agus

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

David Agus

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

David Agus

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

Darren Shan

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.

Dave Barry

Florida's number three industry, behind tourism and skin cancer, is voter fraud.

David Suzuki

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.

Catherine Hardwicke

I was told 50 percent of the population gets cancer. Everybody is going to be affected.

Harry Browne

From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us.

James Wolfe

I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

Jared Diamond

The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

Janet Napolitano

It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

Jane Wiedlin

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

Alan Perlis

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.

Alan Jackson

It's a scary word, 'cancer.

Alan Bennett

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

Al Ries

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I have preferred chloroform to cancer

Eliezer Yudkowsky

If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.

Elie Wiesel

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

Babe Ruth

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

Barbara Ehrenreich

Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Bernie Siegel

I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.'