Famous Quotes & Sayings

If one person decides to get checked for cancer and a life is saved because we met and they heard my story, then it's worth something.

If we can raise a quarter of a million dollars for cancer research that would be excellent.

Andie MacDowell

I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

One of the big concerns is if these stem cells express (produce) genes that can cause cancer. After implanting them into a patient, it would be cancer waiting to happen. You want to make sure that the cells you use for therapy are actually normal and are not in any way screwed up to start with.

No one should die of colon cancer; it is so curable if caught early.

One third of all women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have found the tumor themselves.

Chumlee

My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.

Mike McCue

My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to try to help at home. I had started doing some technology consulting.

William Bratton

You have more police officers in the year 2000 for a problem that is much less. It's like giving a cancer patient more radiation and chemotherapy after the tumor has shrunk. It doesn't make sense.

Robert Lindsay

We have to caution that our data are very preliminary. Raloxifene seems to reduce the risk of breast cancer somewhere between 60 and 80 percent, depending on how the data have been analyzed.

David D. Burns

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

The reason this study is so important is because it's the longest follow-up study of cancer in women with breast implants. There needs to be enough time between exposure and cancer development.

Anne Wojcicki

Nobody can quantify for you what's the impact of eating fiber every day, for instance. We can say we think it's good. But some people might say 'Oh, it reduces your risk of colon cancer by 20%, some people might say it reduces your risk by 25%.'

Tobacco use after cancer diagnosis has now become the elephant in the room, a huge issue in oncology that many in the field are ignoring.

What kind of healthcare service union would stand in the way of a cancer center in New England? That strikes me as the kind of union we don't want.

While it's encouraging that the proportion of women in organized breast cancer screening programs has increased over time, in 2003 participation was only 34 per cent nationally.

Roy Jones

We need to get cancer patients near treatment and keep them near their families at the same time. These three mobile homes are only the beginning. With the help of others in the mobile home and transportation industries, we hope to make a significant impact on the lives of people with cancer in the Gulf Region.

Gloria Arroyo

to make sure that the cancer doesn't grow again.

We all have children and realize cancer can hit any of them at any time.

We already knew that radiotherapy to a conserved breast substantially reduces the chances of local recurrence of breast cancer, and now we know that it also reduces the long-term chances of dying from the disease.

Bob Barr

We are witnessing nothing less than symptoms of a cancer on the American presidency. If we fail to remove it, it will expand to destroy the principles that matter most to all of us.

We do have fairly high rates of screening for breast cancer and cervical cancer. I think that is having a very positive impact on mortality rates for those diseases.

When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year, Jim sent his private jet for my family. I'll never forget that. I did this because I love Jim Wilkes.

Kurt Vonnegut

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

This trial is starting to show we can offer pancreatic cancer patients precious extra time with a new treatment that can be taken in tablet form. These results are an important milestone in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

We had a tough week. We needed a win ... You don't like to talk about these things like they're cancer treatment or heart surgery, but in our little world, it was very important. It would've been a rugged trip home.

We are so pleased Dan was recognized for all of his efforts. He enjoys working with the American Cancer Society staff to ensure the safe and timely delivery of the daffodils.

Billy Graham

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

Marianne Williamson

The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.

Rachel Joyce

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

David Grant

We've opened up a lot of doors in Washington and hopefully the individual states. It needs to happen. I want to see very intense research into treatment of lung cancer and early detection.

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.

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.