Cancer Quotes - Page 31

• Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.

  Laura Mullen

  Thinking, Epidemics, Doors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.

  Julie Gerberding

  People, Healthy, Knows

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Thinking, Way, Molecules

  Source: bigthink.com

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• So, more times than not, but not every time, it can be linked to a medical problem, such as menopause, cancer, chronic pain, it can be linked to anxiety and depression. Those are the more common causes.

  Shelby Harris

  Pain, Medical Problems, Anxiety

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would be one prevalent example right now, different kind of cultures surrounding it. If you don't understand the cultural meaning of an illness like that you're going to miss the boat even if you're a great scientist.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Mistake, Thinking, Missing

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.

  Emmy Rossum

  Pain, Hate, Cat

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

  Rae Smith

  Fall, Opportunity, Bad Ass

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• Your mission: Be so busy loving your life you have no time for hate, regret or fear.

  Karen Salmansohn

  Regret, Hate, Loving You

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• It was noted long ago that the front row of burlesque houses was occupied predominantly by bald-headed men. In fact, such a row became known as the bald-headed row. It might be assumed from this on statistical evidence that the continued close observation of chorus girls in tights caused loss of hair from the top of the head.

  Harry S.N. Greene

  Girl, Loss, Science

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• To hell with your cancer. I've been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it's a death sentence. That's what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence, so every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times - hell, maybe even today - I'm gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life.

  Walter White

  Years, Knowing, Insightful

  "Breaking Bad: Hermanos". TV Series, 2011.

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• Sometimes I feel like I never actually make any of my own. Choices, I mean. My entire life it just seems I never...you know, had a real say about any of it. Now this last one, cancer...all I have left is how I choose to approach this.'

  Walter White

  Real, Mean, Choices

  "Breaking Bad: Gray Matter". 2008.

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• I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.

  Lothar Hirneise

  Healing, Health, Thinking

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• Every successful cancer treatment includes the following three ingredients: thorough detoxification, a change of diet and mental or spiritual work.

  Lothar Hirneise

  Spiritual, Successful, Three

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• I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I'm always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I'm against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let's say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Fighting, Thinking, Dna

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].

  Abdul Sattar Edhi

  Cities, People, Four

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Australia, Opening Ceremony, Singing

  Source: www.mlive.com

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• When they [Democrats] running all these ads that are characterizing [Mitt] Romney as a rich, insensitive, out of touch, aloof nerd who loved having his dog on the roof of the station wagon, who didn't care when the wife of an employee dies with cancer.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Dog, Wife

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You run an ad claiming that [Mitt] Romney is an absolute unfeeling, mean-spirited animal hater because in the example they gave he put his dog on the roof of the station wagon during the family vacation. Why does it work? Why did it stick?And there is an answer.When they [Democrates] ran the ads about guy's wife dying with cancer...? Remember this? This was a serious series of ads, and it was deadly effective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Dog, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Sometimes, when I talk to someone who has just been diagnosed with cancer or some other illness, I'll remind them: "If you were honest with yourself, you were depressed before this happened. And if this were over you would be happy for a couple of weeks, a couple of months, and then something else would come along."

  Marianne Williamson

  Couple, Over You, Would Be

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Cancer is always funny.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.

  Sharon Gannon

  Heart, Animal, Years

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.

  Sharon Gannon

  Sadness, Heart, Simple

  "Choose Joy, Eat Vegan". Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, August 7, 2014.

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• One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It will take time, but if we focus, if we narrow down where the bottle necks are and we move, there's never been a problem we can't solve.

  Joe Biden

  Moving, People, Effort

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• There's about 100 different cancers in a cancer cell. And so what we're finding out is, they're finding out ways to deal with one or two of the cancers there, with certain medicines. But they don't know why, if you have that cancer and I have that cancer, and I get the therapy and you get it, I don't live and you live. That - they don't know why.

  Joe Biden

  Medicine, Cells, Two

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one place, we have the computing capacity to go in and look at what are the similarities and dissimilarities that make them work and don't work. And every expert will tell you, it is probably gonna exponentially increase the capacity to be able to find, A, cures, B, vaccines, and C, turn some cancers into chronic diseases, rather than it cost you your life.

  Joe Biden

  Vaccines, Cells, Done

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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