Cancer famous quotes
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I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.
-- Jon Lord -
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
-- Jonas Salk -
Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.
-- Jonathan Alter -
Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
-- Jonathan Winters -
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.
-- Joni Rodgers -
He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally. Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH.
-- Jordan Sonnenblick -
Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not, like, BALD? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa. THAT must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out...
-- Jordan Sonnenblick -
‎"Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is."
-- Joseph Campbell -
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
-- Joseph P. Kennedy -
By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?
-- Joseph Pilates -
My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?
-- Joyce Maynard -
Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!
-- Joyce Meyer -
The evidence is overwhelming that ***** can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS - or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, ***** is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.
-- Joycelyn Elders -
Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.
-- Judith Peacock -
I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
-- Judy Collins -
It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.
-- Julia Sweeney -
Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in the clinics of Cracow, smallpox vaccination has been followed by violent local and general reactions and by leukemia.
-- Julian Aleksandrowicz -
The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic.
-- Julian Whitaker -
I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.
-- Julian Whitaker -
The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by "mavericks", which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil........We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice.
-- Julian Whitaker -
Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.
-- Julian Whitaker -
I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.
-- Julie Gold -
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact. Doctors treat diseases but they also treat people, and this precondition of their professional existence sometimes pulls them in two directions at once.
-- June Goodfield -
...the NCI...Annual planning Project Requirements (says that) by July 1, 1975, it is estimated that 670,000 people in the US will be working on cancer.
-- June Goodfield -
Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be removed completely. I heard about Dr Breuss and went to see him....he prescribed the juice treatment....By the time I had completed this juice treatment I felt fit and once again had a good appetite. Despite my 72 years I felt my old self again.
-- Jurgen Neukirch -
The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.
-- Justin Halpern -
We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.
-- Justin Rosenstein -
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.
-- K.P. Yohannan -
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
-- Karen Black -
Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.
-- Karl Kraus -
As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
-- Kate Jackson -
My breast cancer was caught very early thanks to my doctor a wonderful woman named Elsie Giogi, who just recently passed away after practicing medicine into her 80's. At the time, she had suggested I go for a baseline mammogram before age 40 because I had fibrocystic breasts. The mammogram discovered a tiny tumor, and it was so small that they were able to take it out very easily. I had a lumpectomy. Unfortunately, they did miss a little of the cancer, and two years later I had a mastectomy. But hey, I'm here, I'm alive, and I'm going to live to be 100!
-- Kate Jackson -
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer
-- Kate Moss -
My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.
-- Kate Walsh -
I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
-- Kate Walsh -
Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.
-- Katha Pollitt -
So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties,
-- Kathryn Joosten -
I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.
-- Kathryn Joosten -
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer.""What's that?""You have to find out what caused it.
-- Kathy Acker -
I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.
-- Kathy Bates -
Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.
-- Kathy Bates -
I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
-- Kathy Griffin -
I feel like I had zero control over getting cancer, but I have 100 percent control over how I will respond to dealing with cancer.
-- Kay Yow -
I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
-- Ken Venturi -
It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.
-- Kendall Schmidt -
Organized medicine quickly adopted the stance that his alleged "cures" fell into three categories: those who never had cancer in the first place; those who were cured by prior radiation and surgery; and those who died. When Healing Becomes a Crime
-- Kenny Ausubel -
I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.
-- Kent Conrad -
Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.
-- Kevin R. Stone -
Cows given genetically modified growth hormones make more milk, but have painful swollen udders, have ulcers, joint pain, miscarriages, deformed calves, infertility, and much shorter life spans. Their milk contains blood, pus, tranquilizers, antibiotics, and an insulin growth factor that can cause a fourfold increase in prostate cancer and sevenfold rise in breast cancer. This is the milk used in our school lunch programs and served to our children. This is the milk that you buy every day. This is the milk used in all cheeses, yogurts, butter, and cream.
-- Kevin Trudeau -
With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.
-- Kevin Whately -
It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.
-- Kiki Dee -
I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.
-- Kim Kardashian -
What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.
-- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw -
If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.
-- Kirk Cameron -
I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that and help them.
-- Kirsten Vangsness -
I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.
-- Koo Stark -
Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.
-- Kris Carr -
I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.
-- Kris Carr -
While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.
-- Kris Carr -
Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.
-- Kris Carr -
I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.
-- Kris Carr -
Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.
-- Kris Carr -
Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.
-- Kris Carr -
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
-- Kylie Minogue -
One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.
-- Kylie Minogue -
I feel more inspired than ever, and think that I will finally achieve what I have long been wishing for: a balance of work and privacy - a harmony.
-- Kylie Minogue -
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.
-- L. Neil Smith -
I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
-- Lance Armstrong -
Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
-- Lance Armstrong -
Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.
-- Lance Armstrong -
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.
-- Lance Armstrong -
What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.
-- Lance Armstrong -
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.
-- Lance Armstrong -
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
-- Lance Armstrong -
The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.
-- Lance Armstrong -
You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.
-- Lance Armstrong -
Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
-- Lance Armstrong -
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.
-- Lance Armstrong -
People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man
-- Lance Armstrong -
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma,
-- Landon Donovan -
Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.
-- Larry Craig -
It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.
-- Larry Hagman -
As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.
-- Larry Hagman -
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.
-- Larry Lucchino -
Dr. Lawrence Burton....in fighting cancer.(:) Many of his patients are now living normal lives after being told there was nothing more the conventional treatments could do for them, and that death was imminent....Why are Americans being forced to go off shore for treatment for cancer from an American doctor and for a program that was developed in America?
-- Larry McDonald -
There is a lot of focus on TV, in magazines...about being skinny and rich. I don't think those are that important. It's much more important for us to be good, honest people that try to help others and live the best life we can. That's where you get your satisfaction ultimately.
-- Laura Evans -
I'm going to beat it, ...it's hard...but I plan on being around for a long time to come.
-- Laura Evans -
(I've learned) how important it is to really evaluate your own life...to pay attention to what's going on in your own head, and to know that this is (your) life...and make conscious decisions about how you want to live it.
-- Laura Evans -
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
-- Laura Linney -
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word.
-- Laura Linney -
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.
-- Laura Ziskin -
In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,
-- Laura Ziskin
