Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Hurley

I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.

Elizabeth Hurley

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too.

Arlen Specter

If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

Arlen Specter

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

Arlen Specter

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.

Arlen Specter

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

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.'

She has a less than 1 percent chance of (the cancer) returning.

She doesn't necessarily go with anything in the room, but she speaks to me. My friends from Tibet gave this to me just before I got a breast cancer diagnosis when I was writing the book.

Since then, she's relearned how to read, how to write and how to drive. She fought back through all of it, but the cancer continued to spread. But we are still hopeful.

John Ortberg

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

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?)

Charles Bukowski

Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ‘What do you write?’ ‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway through a novel.’ ‘A novel, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘What’s the name of it?’ ‘”The Leaky Faucet of My Doom.”‘ ‘Oh, I like that. What’s it about?’ ‘Everything.’ ‘Everything? You mean, for instance, it’s about cancer?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How about my wife?’ ‘She’s in there too.

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.

Eddie Van Halen

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

Eddie Van Halen

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

Elizabeth Edwards

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Elizabeth Edwards

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

Elizabeth Edwards

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

Elizabeth Edwards

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

Elizabeth Edwards

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

Deepak Chopra

More people live off cancer than die from it.

Dirk Benedict

Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from ignorance as to how to have good prostate health. That someone is Roger Mason, and all that one needs to know in order to have a happy prostate has been distilled down into this one book. I would stake the health of my prostate on it, and can tell you as a prostate cancer survivor; it is the ONLY way to go.

The only model for studying human cancer is humans.

Dave Pelzer

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.

Dave Pelzer

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.

Gilbert Adair

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

We need biomarkers that tell us how the cancer will behave.