Cancer famous quotes
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We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the level of one cell.
-- Ray Kurzweil -
When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.
-- Regina Brett -
Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.
-- Regina Brett -
When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.
-- Regina Brett -
Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
-- Regina Brett -
My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.
-- Renata Adler -
I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.
-- Ricardo Antonio Chavira -
I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.
-- Rich Mullins -
Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.
-- Richard Dawkins -
Up to 10% of childhood cancers are caused by radiological examination during pregnancy.
-- Richard Doll -
My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.
-- Richard Kuklinski -
Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.
-- Richard M. Schulze -
Cigarettes don't kill people - cancer kills people.
-- Richard M. Weiner -
Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in the 1970s that the public took notice.
-- Richard Peto -
Asking the public health community to investigate the role of vaccines in the development of autism is like asking the tobacco industry to investigate the link between lung cancer and smoking.
-- Rick Rollens -
Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer
-- Ricky Gervais -
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
-- Rima Fakih -
But you will be hard-pressed to find more than a few novels, films, news stories, and TV shows that dare to depict life as a gift whose purpose is to enrich the human soul.
-- Rob Brezsny -
Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.
-- Robert Atkins -
I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me 'smoking can cause fatal lung cancer'.
-- Robert Clark -
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.
-- Robert Downey, Jr. -
When you first get into television it is a big deal, then you realize you are no better than anyone else, we just have a platform to use, to help other people. I use that platform for the work I do in the military, the work I do with cancer because I was fortunate enough to get that platform.
-- Robert Irvine -
My opinion, however, is that they (herbs) are superior 95% of the time to any pharmaceutical drug!
-- Robert Willner -
The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The ischium are also reforming and the illi (hip bones) likewise show diminution of bone lysis. No sane, honest physician could call this a "spontaneous remission."
-- Robert Willner -
We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.
-- Robert Winston -
I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.
-- Robert Winston -
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.
-- Robert Zoellick -
It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
-- Robin Roberts -
In 1978, in the space of 10 months, 28 leukemia patients came to me and they could all work after six days. It is a portal vein circulation disease, not cancer of the blood. So far 150 leukemia patients have come to me and I could help all of them. Do not fear this disease any more.
-- Rudolf Breuss -
I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
-- Rue McClanahan -
Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible,
-- Rupert Murdoch -
If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger.
-- Ruud Gullit -
Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did.
-- Ryan Ross -
I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
-- Sam Taylor-Wood -
I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
-- Sam Taylor-Wood -
I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.
-- Sam Taylor-Wood -
We are losing the war against cancer. The prohibition of new carcinogenic products, reduction of toxins in use, and right-to-know laws - these are among the legislative proposals which could reverse the cancer epidemic.
-- Samuel Epstein -
We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.
-- Samuel Epstein -
rBGH poses an even greater risk to human health than ever considered. The FDA and Monsanto have a lot to answer for. Given the cancer risks, and other health concerns, why is rBGH milk still on the market?
-- Samuel Epstein -
NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!
-- Samuel Epstein -
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
-- Sara Gruen -
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? And why never study animals in health and natural surroundings? Why always sickened and in an environment of strangeness and artificiality?
-- Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn -
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
-- Sarah Polley -
Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.
-- Sarah Wylie -
The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.
-- Scott Mandia -
humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
-- Scott Westerfeld -
My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
-- Sean William Scott -
My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is no longer humanity's No. 1 health fear was simply overpowering.
-- Shane Smith -
That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It is that perspective that allows you to live a better life while you're here.
-- Shelley Hamlin -
I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
-- Sherri Shepherd -
The only person who can save you is you: That going to be the thing that informed the rest of my life.
-- Sheryl Crow -
Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.
-- Sheryl Crow -
More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.
-- Sheryl Crow -
Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.
-- Sheryl Crow -
I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments ... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.
-- Sheryl Crow -
Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.
-- Sheryl Crow -
Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"
-- Shunryu Suzuki -
All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant-what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs-and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer in terms of its internal genetic anatomy has really changed the way we treat and approach cancer in general.
-- Siddhartha Mukherjee -
...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.
-- Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet -
When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.
-- Sofia Vergara -
To take estrogen or not to take estrogen: That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; at first the studies say 'twill end The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion - For then they say 'twill cause us all to die Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub; For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about What doctors might be saying come next week?
-- Sonya Sones -
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
-- Stanley Norman Cohen -
We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.
-- Stephanie Beacham -
Be a light, not a judge, be a model not a critic. Little by little, your circle of influence will explode and you will avoid the emotional metastasizing cancers of complaining, criticizing, competing, comparing and cynicism, all which reflect victimization, all of which are the opposite of being proactive.
-- Stephen Covey -
Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more [in scientific education and research].
-- Stephen Hawking -
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered.
-- Stephen King -
I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.
-- Stephen Young -
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
-- Steve Ballmer -
I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.
-- Steve Lonegan -
I will be as callous and uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health care. I`d hate to see you get cancer, but that`s your problem, not mine.
-- Steve Lonegan -
I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems.
-- Steve-O -
Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.
-- Steven Popkes -
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality.
-- Steven Weber -
It seems a bit unfair to my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for Germans, but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?
-- Steven Weinberg -
I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.
-- Stone Gossard -
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 -
Every day, I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people who touch us. When you die, it does not mean you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. So live. Live! Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, then lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.
-- Stuart Scott
