Cancer Quotes - Page 10

• That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.

  John Green

  People, Disease, Sometimes

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.99, Penguin UK

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• I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news is priceless.

  Jenna Morasca

  Fall, Fighting, Thinking

  "Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn Share Their Story of Love, Survivor and Battling Cancer". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. May 10, 2011.

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• When cancer first came into my life, people all around me treated it as the enemy. I was told I had to join the medical team and we'd fight together to defeat it. This was the wrong thing to say to someone who was the last one to be picked for any team. I was much happier sitting on the sidelines and encouraging the other players. I was totally unskilled at defeating anything. So I secretly went my own way and decided that I was free to choose the meaning of the healing experience. I decided I would develop a friendly relationship with the cancer, which was something I was good at.

  Dawna Markova

  Team, Healing, Fighting

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.39, Conari Press

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• Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Important, Looks, Disease

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• You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.

  Paul Davies

  Cells, Ideas, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients.

  Zach Braff

  Laughing, Tears, Patient

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• You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.

  Jake Owen

  Father, People, Going Away

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• There had been a head of the FDA (who later turned out to be a fraud) his name was Fishbein and he was rampantly opposed to any alternative therapy. He went after Hoxsey, the Hoxsey therapy back in the 1940's and 50's, and destroyed Hoxsey. But not before Hoxsey sued the AMA and Fishbein and [proved] that the therapy actually worked. But it didn't help him because they closed him down anyhow

  Gary Null

  Fda, Names, Alternatives

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• Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.

  Dana Reeve

  Thinking, Tunnels, Light

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• 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

  Perspective, Survival, Better Life

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• Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Opportunity, Survival, Looks

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• Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.

  Yael Cohen

  Teaching, Years, People

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• Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

  Mr. T

  Survival, Proud, Blackness

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• We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

  Peter Jennings

  Survival, Survivor, Diagnosis

  Final ABC broadcast, April 5, 2005.

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• We are all precancerous.

  George Carlin

  Survival, Cancer Survival

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.195, Hachette UK

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• I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.

  Fran Drescher

  Female

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• So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different?

  Michael Milken

  Relatives And Friends, Survival, Family And Friends

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• Cancer is everybody's cause.

  Laura Ziskin

  Survival, Causes, Cancer Survival

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• 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

  Healing, Medicine, Three

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• "I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

  Babe Ruth

  Doctors, Dying, Valleys

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• Cancer is enough to get my attention.

  Charles Grodin

  Survival, Attention, Enough

  Charles Grodin (1993). “How I Get Through Life: A Wise and Witty Guide”, Quill

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• For many years there have been treatments available which are successful and usually NOT harmful for diseases, such as AIDS, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, organ regeneration and other diseases. One by one these treatments and their creators or proponents have been targeted by the FDA, which I call the "office of orthodoxy enforcement," illegally using just powers derived from the consent of governed. These forms of tyranny are always accompanied by multi agency intrusions or harassment, confiscation of private medical files, censorship of written materials and threats or prosecution.

  Charles C. Pixley

  Successful, Fda, Agency

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• We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after their treatment, with no cancer. And Dr. Burton didn't selectively give us these. These were "take what you want. Here are the patients I treated." So there was statistical improvement - more so than any cancer institution in the United States could show.

  Gary Null

  Years, Giving, United States

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• We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.

  Samuel Epstein

  Issues, Political, Problem

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• With cancer, there's always that doubt-that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive.

  Merril Hoge

  Being Positive, Doubt, Survival

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