Cancer Quotes - Page 23

• Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.

  Thom Yorke

  Soul, Special, Kind

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• I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

  Thom Yorke

  Hate, Men, Self

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• Cancer is very chaotic.

  Kris Carr

  Chaotic

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

  Ellen Barkin

  Crazy, Gay, Thinking

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• If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Winning, Given, Needed

  "Elizabeth Edwards loses battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 8, 2010.

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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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• 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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• It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.

  William H. Stewart

  War, Book, Heart

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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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• When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

  Steve Jobs

  Sadness, Feelings, Plight

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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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• I first found out I had cancer on my eye and lost an eye to this disease when I was 16, and I've since had cancer in my kidneys and pancreas and a host of other areas.

  Tom Rath

  Eye, Disease, Kidneys

  "Author Tom Rath On The Health Wake-Up Call He Got At 16 Years Old". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2013.

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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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• Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  Heart, People, Broken

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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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• 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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• 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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