Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Jefferies

I think only things that are personal to us offend us. It's always bizarre when people who would normally laugh at an AIDS joke won't laugh at a cancer joke, but far more people know somebody who's died from cancer.

Colonoscopy has proven to be an effective method for preventing colorectal cancer by detecting and removing polyps that have the potential to develop into colorectal cancer as well as finding early cancers that are more effectively treated.

Colon cancer takes about 10 to 15 years to develop, and follow-up of the study was only 7 years." ()

Colon cancer screening is probably one of the most underused ways to save one's life from cancer that exists.

Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer in women, and it's the third leading cause of cancer-related death in women.

Colorectal cancer is a lethal disease, but certainly a preventable one if screenings are done at the appropriate time and intervals. Education and screening are the keys to preventing colorectal cancer.

Fran Drescher

I definitely do support The American Cancer Foundation, as well as a myriad of other cancer groups and hospitals.

If dogs can detect cancer early, we wanted to investigate it. If you get time, you get hope.

Jasper Fforde

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Hippocrates

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

Evelyn Lauder

My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

Eva Vertes

It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.

Eva Vertes

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

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.

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.

His dad died from colon cancer in 1994, in May.

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.