Cancer Quotes
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Society does not seem prepared to accept the sacrifices required for an effective prevention of cancer.
Renato Dulbecco
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The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions.
David H. Koch
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
Hamilton Jordan
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I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.
Mel Gibson
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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
Uri Geller
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and still I never thought it could happen to me. I didn't even regularly check my breasts.
Jameela Jamil
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
Hans Rosling
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Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.
John Ortberg
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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
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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
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
Jack Ramsay
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My mother had breast cancer when she was 39.
Lisa Jewell
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Charity fundraisers are nothing new to me. In the past, I have taken part in ski races for hospitals, walks for breast cancer, and long distance bike rides for geriatric care.
David Sax
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Men need to be aware of the health of their bodies, as well - prostate cancer and breast cancer are almost on the same level. It's fascinating to me that the correlation between the two is almost the same - people don't talk about it so much, but they are almost equal in numbers.
Olivia Newton-John
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Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
Harold E. Varmus
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Yeah, yeah, I know I got rid of the headache. Now I got cancer.
Abraham Polonsky
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Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
Harald zur Hausen
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People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
Laura Linney
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With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
Betsey Johnson
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The first step is really getting our generation to talk to our parents about cancer. Because our research has shown that parents are much more likely to get that diagnostic test or stay on top of their risk profile if it comes from a child.
Yael Cohen
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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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You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
Joe Torre