Cancer Quotes - Page 16

• Conventional cancer therapy is so toxic and dehumanizing that I fear it far more than I fear death from cancer.

  Julian Whitaker

  Toxic, Fear Of Death, Therapy

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• Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the major cancers that could be credited to chemotherapy. Whether any of the common cancers can be cured by chemotherapy has yet to be established.

  John Cairns

  Sudden Change, Common, Chemotherapy

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• It is important to emphasize again and again and again that finding a cure is not the problem The cures for many cancers, if not most cancers, exist. But they are not being offered to the patient who has cancer.... Being legally permitted to use an alternative cancer therapy is the problem

  Barry Lynes

  Important, Use, Alternatives

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• Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May 30,1972) letter to (congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the FDA, AMA and ACS (American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying information, literally lying...and in other ways thwarting potential cancer cures to which they were opposed.

  Barry Lynes

  Lying, Fda, Agency

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• In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2) multiple chemotherapy, and (3) no treatment at all. No treatment 'proved a significantly better policy for patients' survival and for quality of remaining life.'

  Barry Lynes

  Survival, Quality, Medical

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• Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

  Paul Davies

  Study, Insight, Huge

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the biosphere. It's a phenomenon that is deeply related to the history of life itself, so by studying cancer I think we can illuminate the history of life itself and vice versa.

  Paul Davies

  Thinking, Cells, Vices

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Recovery, Night, Bed

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

  Molly Ivins

  Fun, Firsts, Poison

  "Who Needs Breasts, Anyway?". content.time.com. February 18, 2002.

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• The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens.

  Roger Ebert

  Adventure, Dvds, Two

  Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.161, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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

  Time Zones, Want, Firsts

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• The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

  Susan Sontag

  Civilization, White, Race

  'Partisan Review' Winter 1967, p. 57

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• There is no safe dose of radiation since radiation is cumulative.  Harm in the form of excess human cancer occurs at all doses of ionizing radiation, down to the lowest conceivable dose and dose rate.

  John Gofman

  Excess, Safe, Radiation

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• It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Thinking, Issues, Achievement

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• It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Long, Drug, Diagnosis

  "Patrick Soon-Shiong, LA’s Richest Man, Ups The Ante On Cancer Research, City Life" by Ronald Grover, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• When in organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative".

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Cells, Creative, Young

  Blog post, August 29, 2007.

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• If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

  Ernst T. Krebs

  Skills, Important, Body

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• Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer.

  Michael F. Jacobson

  Fda, Acquiescence, Coke

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• I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

  Lance Armstrong

  Helping Others, Opportunity, Avid

  Press Conference, October 08, 1996.

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• Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

  Arthur M. Jolly

  Mother, Spending, Has Beens

  "Trash". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2013.

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• I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

  Arnold Palmer

  Fighting, Thinking, Government

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Heart

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• One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.

  Jennifer Beals

  Selling Products, Lovely, Goes On

  "Jennifer Beals Speaks Out Against 'Pinkwashing'". www.nbcwashington.com. November 01, 2011.

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• 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

  Diagnosis, Fighter, Fierce

  "Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey: the transcript". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

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• Dr Dean Burk, who has spent more than fifty years in cancer research, mainly at the National Cancer Institute states: 'More people have died in the last thirty years from cancer connected with fluoridation than all the military deaths in the entire history of the United States.'

  Dean Burk

  Military, Years, People

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