Cancer Quotes
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"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)
Babe Ruth
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Having thyroid cancer in 2009 really didn't change my life at all. I wish I could say that I had this epiphany. But I knew I was lucky before that, so it's not like I suddenly realised how lucky I am.
Clare Balding
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For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
Kevin Richardson
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Cancer doesn't care if you have suffered before.
Jenna Morasca
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I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.
Marcia Wallace
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One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.
Len Dawson
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Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
Scott Westerfeld
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When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
Norm MacDonald
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I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them?
Abram Hoffer
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
Jasper Fforde
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You don't treat cancer - you fight it.
Jenna Morasca
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Cancer isn't going to slow me down.
Ethan Zohn
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There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
Bill Gates
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People come up to me and say somebody in their family has cancer, and we appreciate what you do, and we appreciate your fight, and don't give up, we love your attitude.
Craig Sager
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Come on, I'm a television star. Nobody on television is curing cancer. I've had a great ride, and I'm very honored to have been in this business. I'm happy if I managed to affect people in a positive way.
David Hasselhoff
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Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.
Charles Barkley
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We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.
Jon Porter
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Only by studying large numbers of people can we figure out, are astronauts dying at a higher rate of cancer, and what types of cancers, than other people?
John M. Grunsfeld
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This atlas of genomic changes will provide new insights into the biological basis of cancer, which in turn will lead to new tests to detect cancer in its early, most treatable stages; new therapies to target cancer at its most vulnerable points; and, ultimately, new strategies to prevent cancer.
Elias Zerhouni
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If one can understand why people behave as they do then often the road to forgiveness is opened. Not only is forgiveness essential for the health of Society, it is also vital for our personal well-being. Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul. It does more harm to those that hold it than to those whom it is held against.
Terence Hardy
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Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.
T. Colin Campbell
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My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
Sean William Scott
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Cancer is always funny.
Jim Gaffigan
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I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim Valvano