Famous Quotes & Sayings

Last year, the American Cancer Society spent $130 million nationally, with most of the money going into cancer research.

Less money is made by biochemists working on a cure for cancer than by their colleagues struggling valiantly to hide steroid use.

Caitriona Balfe

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

Screenings in general are incredibly important because cancer, like many other diseases, the first part in curing it is detecting it. So prevention is of the utmost importance.

Secondhand smoke causes cancer and other diseases. But the tobacco industries' overall global strategy and tactic was to plant doubt in the minds of the American people ... Does it really?

So it is probably less important to do preventive health and find a cancer early or risk factors -- than it is to make sure the patients don't already have problems that could lead to sudden incapacitation.

So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy that is able to distinguish between healthy and cancer cells could be less difficult to endure for those with cancer.

She went from living this normal life to living a cancer life.

Dannii Minogue

She's going to be fine. She's really lucky her cancer has been treatable. She's getting better by the day. I can't wait to see her back on her feet. She's inspirational, she's a fighter.

Bobby Heenan

Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.

We relay for the hope that cancer patients in treatment will be supported, the hope that those lost will never be forgotten, and the hope that someday cancer will be eliminated.

We sent the film hoping they would consider it for a side showing. This tells the world this is not just an important medical issue - kids facing cancer - but it's a good film.

We still don't understand it to the degree we do any other cancer.

Colin Cooper

This work is potentially very important in terms of understanding how prostate cancer develops, but the results must now be confirmed in a larger number of prostate cancer samples.

The question here is why is there an association between these more minor cancers and potentially more dangerous cancers?

This study demonstrates the importance of familial factors in the general development of cancer. These susceptibility factors can be environmental but are more likely to be influenced by genetic factors because genes control pathways common to a number of cancers.

Abraham Verghese

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

Amy Robach

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

Amy Lowell

Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

Ann Jillian

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

Ann Jillian

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

Ann Jillian

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

Ann Landers

A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.

Ann Coulter

There is a growing body of evidence that radiation in excess of what the government says are the minimum amounts we should be exposed to are actually good for you and reduce cases of cancer.

Ann Coulter

With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.

Michael White

When we put all the trials together we were hopeful of validating a cancer-protective effect, but we ended up not finding any.

Bobby Hamilton

When you write my name, don?t write my name as a cancer victim. I?m not a victim. Victims are what I see on police TV shows when people get shot.

This says individuals might be genetically predisposed to more than one type of cancer. That tells us that there is a common pathway for these cancers.

The rate of early cancer detection was better than what we see in the general community. But it remains to be seen if that translates into a mortality benefit. It is too early to make any recommendations regarding chest X-rays as a lung cancer screening tool in the general population.

We don't have in this report how much that would go down. It's obviously not going to go to zero because we will always have people with cancer and stroke.

We don't have in this report how much that would go down, ... It's obviously not going to go to zero because we will always have people with cancer and stroke .

We are seeing a 50 percent reduction in the risk of colon cancer when we compare the top 20 percent of the population of women who in mid-life are exercising at the equivalent of an hour of walking a day,

Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.