Cancer Quotes

Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.

Edgar Berman
- Heart
- Health
- Prestige
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
- Life
- Wish
- Cancer

This is appalling that the National Cancer Institute did not make this available as soon as possible. It's been too long sitting on this.

Arjun Makhijani
In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result - the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation - is one of the nation's largest non-profits, and one of the most successful triumphs in public health marketing and changing health habits.

Charles Duhigg
- Health
- Dying
- Sister
I make myself have energy. It's stubbornness in the face of cancer.

Stuart Scott
If there were indeed effective natural, alternative cancer cures known to—but suppressed by—oncologists, no oncologist, nor any friend, colleague or family member of an oncologist, would ever die of cancer.

Edzard Ernst
- Family
- Die
- Friend
In my practice as surgeon, I am impressed by the alarming increase of cancer cases brought to my notice; an increase, which in the light of the general hygienic and sanitary improvements of our time, can point to no other cause than the indulgence in certain foodstuffs detrimental to normal life of the body.

Charles Horace Mayo
- Age
- Dark
- Improvement
We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.

Elizabeth Esty
- Trying
- Control
- Stop