Cancer Quotes
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
Kate Jackson -
We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
Katee Sackhoff
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Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
Amy Klobuchar -
The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.
Aaron Ciechanover -
When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.
Olivia Newton-John -
We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
Aaron Ciechanover
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Our parents, loved ones, and friends are getting cancer. So we need to know how to care for them, support them, and understand what the hell is going on. I don't think it's that hard to reach them: you have to go where they are - online. You have to speak their language - humour, wit, and edge. And you have to be honest, authentic and bold.
Yael Cohen -
Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
Laura Linney -
People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.
Eric Davis -
Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.
Jack Wild -
If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
Hamilton Jordan -
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
Harold E. Varmus
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
Jack Ramsay -
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
Laura Linney -
I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
Manika -
I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.
David Rakoff -
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
Ingrid Newkirk
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I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Patrick Swayze -
Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
Harald zur Hausen -
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Harold Pinter -
My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.
Lisa Jewell