Cancer Quotes

• Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

  

  Kris Carr
  • Life
  • Future
  • Cancer

• Although I've only been to one once, I always thought tanning salons were a lot safer than outdoor tanning. It does worry me to find out that salons could be just as harmful, if not more, since most people assume they're safer indoors and tend to let their guard down. However, I think people that use them just need to be cautious and understand that skin cancer is still a risk to them.

  

  Andrea Brown
  • Risk
  • Cancer
  • Salons

• I didn't tell anyone I had lupus for many, many years, and I didn't tell anyone I had cancer. I was afraid no one would hire me, and I also felt it was deeply personal. It was nobody's business. Now, of course, my feelings have changed.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Business
  • Cancer

• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.

  

  Stuart Scott
  • Live
  • Cancer
  • Beat

• I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought "ha, if I was a God-botherer, I'd be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?" and I thought at least I'm free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

  

  Mindy Sterling
  • Cancer
  • Helpless
  • Caregivers

• And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

  

  Jim Valvano
  • Work
  • Cancer

• In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

  

  Paul Davies
  • Stories
  • Cures
  • Elusive

• But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."

  

  Eve Ensler
  • God
  • Book
  • Telling Stories

• For so long, the mainstays of cancer treatment have been chemotherapy and radiation. They're toxic and primitive. We need to look at it in a rational way and say, how can we help the body heal itself?

  

  Eva Vertes
  • Help
  • Treatment
  • Radiation

• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

  

  Petrarch
  • Friendship
  • Cancer
  • Suspicion

• I think it's important for women to have a means to get health care. I think it's important that women have a place to go to get Pap smears and cancer screenings. And it shouldn't be considered extra. It shouldn't be considered something that can be "cut." It shouldn't be something that's in danger of going away. The idea that we're even thinking about cutting that off because somebody else isn't enjoying it themselves or somebody has extreme opinions about it is worrisome to me.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Important
  • Mean
  • Opinion

• I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

  

  Rue McClanahan
  • Cancer
  • Breast

• Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit... towards the area where there's no return, it stays, then there's no turning back.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • Cancer

• The women I know who have gone through breast cancer still laugh a lot. They're not crying all day.

  

  Monica Potter
  • Cancer
  • Cry

• I think it was a realization of this cancer, an understanding of the broader implications of what cancer is. The greed, the ravaging of lands and seas for profit, the taking of things that don't belong to us; what we've done to the environment in this fast-paced, careless hunger. I think all of that was happening in my body.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Environment
  • Hunger
  • Implications

• It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.

  

  Eva Vertes
  • Think
  • Cancer
  • Therapy

• Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

  

  Michael E. Mann
  • Mean
  • Rain
  • Smoking

• If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Black
  • Cancer

• The principle of treating cancer is to kill the abnormally dividing cells. Many drugs achieve this in a relatively unselective way, killing any cell that is dividing.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Cancer

• More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?

  

  Chuck Austen
  • Religion
  • Name
  • Died

• The doctor can X-Ray you and say, 'You got cancer.' And then you go home and God let me see, does Christ have cancer? If Christ don't, I don't have cancer. All I need to do is get a picture of what he looks like. Because, if I can see Him I become like Him.

  

  Eddie Long
  • Home
  • Christ
  • Doctors

• Communication. It's important to be completely open and fearless when it comes to communication. Good, bad, happy, sad. Talk it out, hug, see a shrink, text each other, hurl marshmallows. Whatever it takes to ensure a deep understanding of each other's feelings. Cancer is not a solo mission.

  

  Ethan Zohn
  • Feelings
  • Communication
  • Mission

• Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.

  

  Mindy Sterling
  • Woman
  • Cancer
  • Another

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