Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sheryl Crow

Approximately one in seven American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime and more than 2 million Americans are living with breast cancer today. I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year.

A nicotine patch may not be enough. We have a group of smokers who are often interested in stopping, but don't have the tools needed to be successful. Family members often tell us they are motivated to quit but the stress of caring for their relative with lung cancer makes it the worst time in their lives to try.

As an industry, you can live with a low-grade fever, but you cannot live with a cancer -- and that's the level that we're currently at.

Other cancers need to learn how to spread, but not melanoma. Now, for the first time, we understand the genetic mechanism.

Lindy Boggs

After seven years, you think you're home free. I was told that I had less of a chance of the cancer reoccurring than if I had never had cancer at all.

The National Cancer Institute wants to make certain the results of clinical research are rapidly disseminated to healthcare providers and patients, to ensure life-enhancing cancer treatments are widely available.

The Multiethnic Cohort offers clues in understanding the racial and ethnic differences in cancer incident rates.

African-American women have twice the mortality rate from cervical cancer as white women. Researchers need to investigate how those differences are related to socioeconomic status.

After Chris' funeral I decided to grow my hair. Then a month later my uncle died of cancer. That was a hard hit to me. At first no one really knew why I was growing out my hair, but as they found out they understood.

Early detection is everything. Late cancers don't do well, early cancers do.

There's practically nothing on breast cancer patients, and we think that's a terrible loss.

Predatory lending is like a cancer that needs to be wiped out. Congressional programs that would roll back state laws are going in the wrong direction.

Predatory lending is a cancer that should be wiped out. We've reached a new stage in the debate over predatory lending laws. It's clear that state laws improve substantially on federal law and protect people who would otherwise be in danger of losing thousands of dollars - or even their homes.

John Cooper

Raising money for charities, especially medical research, is important, and supporting the family and loved ones of cancer survivors is very important.

Randi would walk into the cancer center and smile at the other patients. She would always have a hug or smile or nice thing to say to the people who were there.

David Dinkins

Race relations can be an appropriate issue . . . but only if you want to craft solutions, and not catalogue complaints. If we use the issue appropriately, we can transform it from the cancer of our society into the cure.

Alex Graves

'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon who's an agnostic, tough, grounded, scientific mind and she's hired by a Steve Jobs-type who's just been diagnosed with cancer to focus on near death experiences and what happens when you die.

Probably it's going to cost a lot, and most people are not going to have cancer, but how else are you going to find the people who do?

Dirk Benedict

People think surviving cancer is tough, or surviving a divorce, but NOTHING compares with fighting with American Culture when you want to raise your kids free of junk food. Read Junk Food Nation. A great book.

At the highest concentration of ascorbic acid, if given intravenously, they don't touch normal cells and they kill lots of cancer cells. We don't know why,

Eric Schmidt

Costs, for better or for worse, have really not infiltrated a discussion that a doctor and a patient have when debating whether or not to use a cancer drug. We don't think it's impacting trends.

Joe Biden

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Consistently it's been found that women who drink more than one drink a day have about a 20 percent higher risk for breast cancer than women who do not drink.

This gives some evidence that milk might be linked to increase risk of ovarian cancer, but more research is needed.

This is a first step in showing that we can restore a normal, functioning gene in a cancer cell, a gene that normally causes that cell to be cancerous when it's defective.

The most fundamental problem we're dealing with is we don't know the cause of breast cancer. But we will find out.

You're treating not just the cancer -- you're trying to treat the whole patient and you're trying to encourage them to maintain a normal life.

You're in your 40s and you've got breast cancer, but everybody in your family has died of a heart attack. It's clear that for the appropriate people this is going to be the appropriate treatment.

Young people need to know that they can significantly reduce their risk of getting skin cancer later if they start protecting their skin from the sun now.

This is a revolutionary project. It's going to empower all cancer researchers with an entire new set of data to work with.

This is an interesting and important finding in cancer research alone, but we also thought that the horse's naturally low calcium levels might limit cell division in vitro.

David Cameron

This is important news for Scotland as it means those women diagnosed with higher risk breast cancer will be able to have a better chance with this drug.

This is her whole thing, ... cancer is something she has. It is not who she is.