Famous Quotes & Sayings

And so what we think it's doing is that in people who are using aspirin regularly, over a long period of time, they are actually inhibiting any little early skin cancers they might have in their skin.

These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.

These are cancers that kill women and (many) were missed on film.

These polyps can take between two and five years to develop into cancer. This gives us a window of opportunity, when they can be removed and prevented from developing any further.

Robert Morgan

All, however, is not bleak, ... For many years it was thought that early-stage ovarian cancer did not give symptoms. Several papers published in the past four to five years, however, have shown that 90 percent of women with early-stage ovarian cancer do have symptoms.

Eric Lander

We now know 600 different genes involved in cancer - giving rise to new drug targets.

Christopher Buckley

The danger in that is that you find yourself promoting cancer.

Loni Anderson

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

Jim Valvano

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

Jim Valvano

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

Jim Valvano

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

John Barrasso

For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. Ive been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

Lurlene McDaniel

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

Lurlene McDaniel

I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

John Cheever

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

The jury is now in: Estrogen does not increase the risk for breast cancer, which is what most women thinking about using the hormone worry about.

Geraldine Ferraro

Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

Geraldine Ferraro

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Harold E. Varmus

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

Harold E. Varmus

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

Harold E. Varmus

A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.

Gilbert Adair

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

Michael E. Mann

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

Michael Douglas

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

George Carlin

We are all precancerous.

George Carlin

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

George Carlin

Cancer research is a growth industry.

George Carlin

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.

George Carlin

The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

George Carlin

It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing makes me happy. The fact that people, in pursuit of a superficial look of health, give themselves a fatal disease. I love it when 'reasoning' human beings think they have figured out how to beat something and it comes right back and kicks them in the nuts. God bless the law of unintended consequences. And the irony is impressive: Healthy people, trying to look healthier, make themselves sick. Good!

Keyshawn Johnson

They'll continue to show it on television, ... They'll show it on ESPN 40 times. They'll say I'm a cancer. The crowd loved it. The fans love it. The producers in the truck love it because it's big news. But to us, it's a joke.

George Carman

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

Christopher Hitchens

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.