Cancer Quotes - Page 14

• We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

  Peter Jennings

  Survival, Survivor, Diagnosis

  Final ABC broadcast, April 5, 2005.

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• Cancer is everybody's cause.

  Laura Ziskin

  Survival, Causes, Cancer Survival

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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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• 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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• Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.

  Hadiqa Kiani

  People, Generosity, Memorial

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• Cancer is very chaotic.

  Kris Carr

  Chaotic

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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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• 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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• With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.

  Susan Sontag

  Moving, Passion, Character

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

  Paul Davies

  Lying, Answers, Way

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

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• My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

  Henry Ford

  Family, Father, Mind

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• Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.

  David Fairchild

  Science, Sea, Snakes

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• Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

  Bernard Levin

  Effort, Prevention, Responsible

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• Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Flu, Ulcers, Mental Illness

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• In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Shoulders, Shakes

  "Elizabeth Edwards Battles Breast Cancer". "Dateline NBC" with Katie Couric, www.nbcnews.com. November 21, 2004.

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• America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

  Todd Akin

  Government, America, Three

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• You're looking through the kaleidoscope of God and seeing God's face in so many ways, as friends, as strangers, passersby, country roads, jammed freeways, the cancer ward, the maternity ward - all the faces of God surround you at all times.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Country, Way

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• 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

  Smoking, Warning, Lasts

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