Cancer Quotes
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Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.
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Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.
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If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.
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What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.
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This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
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Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.
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The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.
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Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.
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I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
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...those who say I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.
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I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.
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With Halcyon's technology, the pool of genetic information will grow by orders of magnitude in the course of months, offering the first real chance at cures for cancer and other previously intractable diseases.
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My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
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To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.
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Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.
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The most significant and alarming consequence of early maturation is an increased risk for breast cancer in adulthood.
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A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer were found tomorrow, all US medical schools would teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment.
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After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.
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Nobody talks about cancer until they have to, and then, it's really all you can talk about.
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There’s one thing we know. We can’t afford – and no one in the world can afford – to treat all the late-stage cancer.
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Behind the entire problem, however, is the fear of using one's full power or energy. Cancer patients most usually feel an inner impatience as they sense their own need for future expansion and development, only to feel it thwarted.
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After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.
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My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.
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We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.
