Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catfish Hunter

If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

Francis Collins

We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.

Fran Drescher

I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.

Fran Drescher

My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.

George McGovern

This total failure to address the diet/cancer relationship is most disturbing to ...those...informed...

George McGovern

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

Jack Anderson

Health experts working on a union backed screening program to detect bladder cancer in a Georgia chemical plant were stunned when the local (ACS) cancer society not only didn't support the program, but tried to discourage participation in it.

Ingrid Bergman

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.

Because cancer does not sleep, neither will we for this one day.

Charley Pride

Charley Pride was a regular feature at the New Mexico State Fair from 1971-75; they raised money and it was good for the cancer society.

George Bernard Shaw

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Gale Norton

Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

Canine scent detection of cancer was something that was anecdotally discussed for decades, but we felt it was appropriate to design a rigorous study that seriously investigated this topic to better evaluate its effectiveness.

Cancer ravaged her body, but it never took her spirit away. She was a fighter to the end.

Cancer outgrowth after surgery has been observed for over 100 years, and the mechanisms have not been fully identified.

Cancer is one of the big three killers that the executive have been focusing on, so if it can't make any progress in this area, how will it improve the overall situation in the NHS?

Cancer is one of the big three killers that the Executive has been focusing on, so if it can't make any progress in this area, how will it improve the overall situation in the NHS?

Cancer is cancer. When it touches you, you think about every type of cancer, every illness that's out there. This is one very small way I can give back to another cancer survivor.

Barbara Bush

Cancer is a disease that touches many lives, and the proceeds from the luncheon will provide an excellent service towards increasing breast cancer prevention, ... I am pleased to be a part of the Methodist Healthcare Cancer Center Luncheon, and I am looking forward to my trip to Memphis.

Cancer in the Family: Communicating With Your Children

Cancer hits home to everybody, ... This was something everyone could really rally behind.

Cancer cells emit different metabolic waste products than normal cells. The differences between these metabolic products are so great that they can be detected by a dog's keen sense of smell, even in the early stages of disease.

Cancer can have an enormous impact on someone's income and many people don't realise that they are eligible for financial help from the Government.

But when you're talking about smoking, the message doesn't change; it stays the same. Elimination of smoking will reduce lung cancer incidence.

Gertrude B. Elion

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

He stated his wife was having chemo treatments for breast cancer. She wasn't around the house a lot and he was 'lonely', was the word he used.

Hot flashes are a serious problem; this type of symptom can be disabling, ... The study provides another alternative for women with breast cancer to consider for controlling symptoms.

Imran Khan

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

Jack Layton

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

Ingrid Newkirk

Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.

Jack Kevorkian

I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

Jello Biafra

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.