Cancer Quotes - Page 23

• I see racism as a cancer. It is a cancer growing in us. Unless we stop it, it vegetates and grows bigger which hurts every one of us.

  Pearl Tan

  Hurt, Racism, Growing

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I know and know of more than a few MTF's (male-to-female trannies) who've developed strange cancers. Myself, I've got a nice little case of Chronic Lymphocitic Leukemia (CLL).

  Kate Bornstein

  Nice, Littles, Males

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

  Allen Klein

  Smile, Broken Heart, Pain

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• Today the data linking violence in the media to violence in society are superior to those linking cancer and tobacco.

  David Grossman

  Media, Data, Today

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• I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.

  Robin Roberts

  Stronger, Phrases, My Favorite

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• Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

  Robin Roberts

  Thinking, Challenges, Tests

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• It was part of the reason I almost didn't go public with my diagnosis - I was embarrassed. I felt, 'Oh, I've always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.' And then I realized it's a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.

  Robin Roberts

  Exercise, Example, Diagnosis

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• I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

  Eric Davis

  Girl, Baseball, Doctors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

  Eric Davis

  Tragedy, Doe, Why Not

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.

  Jon Porter

  Dollars, Research, Victim

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• Every now and again I just really have to have that steak or lamb chop. But yeah, B.C. - before cancer - I would eat red meat probably three or four times a week, easily. I am convinced that the amount of red meat I contributed to it.

  Robin Roberts

  Red, Meat, Three

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• When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

  Scott Thompson

  Want, Found, Said

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• The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

  Julian Huxley

  Inspirational, Race, Planets

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• Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.

  David Jenkins

  Fiber, Vegetarian, Beneficial

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• There is not one, but many cures for cancer available. But they are all systematically suppressed by the ACS, the NCI, and the major oncology centres. They have too much of an interest in the status quo.

  Robert Atkins

  Oncology, Too Much, Wellness

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• There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.

  Robert Atkins

  War, Medicine, Alternatives

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• I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Normal, Proof, Inconvenience

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• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachments is to, grow every day more encroaching; like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.

  John Adams

  People, Giving, Voting

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.43

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• Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.

  Joe Murray

  Children, Two, Ears

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• But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister, Koch and Keen as charlatans...Napoleon said that war is too important to be left to the generals. We go on the assumption in the Senate that foreign relations are too important to be left to the diplomats...this question (on a novel cancer cure) is too important to leave purely to doctors.

  Paul Douglas

  War, Dark, Past

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• It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.

  Paul Douglas

  Independent, Dark, Fda

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• The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Husband, Phones, Black

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• India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.

  Imran Khan

  Heart, Mind, Battle

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• Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer.

  Robert Altman

  Girl, Divorce, Bullshit

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.166, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

  Ted Turner

  Guy, Trying, May

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