Cancer Quotes - Page 11

• You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Should Have, Known, Should

  "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar updates health". www.espn.com. February 10, 2011.

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• It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

  William J. Clinton

  Stars, Children, Science

  "Team of Researchers Complete Working Draft of Human Genome". "World Today", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2000.

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• My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Hurt, Laughter, Fun

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• The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

  Lance Armstrong

  Survival, Firsts, Cancer Survival

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• "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 everybody's cause.

  Laura Ziskin

  Survival, Causes, Cancer Survival

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• A study was done which shows the majority of oncologists who refer patients for chemotherapy for lung cancer would not themselves take chemotherapy for lung cancer. And in fact if the chemotherapy involved cis-platen, something like 75% of them said they wouldn't take it. But what do these people do all day long? They're sending people for cis-platen.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Long, People, Majority

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• The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case

  Ralph W. Moss

  Two, Childhood, Stories

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• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Running, Heart, Thinking

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• USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

  Ezra Pound

  Cutting, Knives, World

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• So what do they do? They start writing articles in the New York Daily News. Boy, that's a paper that loves to write crap on people, isn't it? Wanna talk about a paper that supports fascism! Man, I've seen more doctors hatcheted in there. The butchery they did on Emmanuel Revici, the butchery they did on Lawrence Burton, calling him nothing more -- what was the quote the guy said?. . . "Burton is nothing more than a horse doctor." Denigrating him, tearing down his character.

  Gary Null

  Horse, New York, Writing

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• Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

  Kris Carr

  Annoying, Deals, Cellulite

  "Crazy, sexy...cancer?". Interview with Erin Zammett Ruddy, www.glamour.com. July 31, 2007.

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• Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

  Paul Davies

  Dream, Understanding, May

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.

  Zoe Wanamaker

  Pain, Father, Able

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• I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

  Kris Carr

  Wheels, Awake

  "Celebrating a Decade Thriving With Cancer" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• ... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

  Gilda Radner

  Get Well, Illness, Wells

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Doe, Stories, Cures

  "Cancer can teach us about our own evolution" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2012.

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• I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Anorexia, Wish, Hell

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Scholastic UK

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• Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

  Paul Davies

  Epidemics, Numbers, Disease

  "Cancer: The beat of an ancient drum?" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Years, People, Joy

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