Cancer Quotes - Page 40

• Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.

  Hoda Kotb

  Risk, Shapes, Empowered

  "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

  Ellen Pompeo

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• If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

  Gus Van Sant

  Circles, Connections, Needs

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• I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

  Karen Black

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• With just a little love and a little caring, I have seen kids totally turn around. Where you can't find any cancer at all anymore in their body. I've done it a lot of times. I'm not trying to say I'm Jesus Christ. We should just give a little more attention to the power of love and caring and faith and prayer.

  Michael Jackson

  Jesus, Prayer, Kids

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• I don’t need to reiterate the fact that that everyone has a relationship with cancer. Whether it’s an individual-personal relationship — whether it’s with family or friends — we’ve all been touched by cancer.

  Sheryl Crow

  Needs, Facts, Individual

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• Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.

  Sheryl Crow

  Thinking, Mind, Mammograms

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• Please make sure everyone knows how much their messages mean to me. They have added greatly to my peace of mind. I only wish some of the writers would take a more positive approach to the menace of cancer. I've got it, sure; but I'm not afraid to use the word. Some of them act like it's a dirty word. That's the wrong attitude. We should all bring it out in the open, recognize that it exists, and fight it! Cancer is everybody's enemy. We can't 'think' an enemy out of existence by ignoring it.

  Gary Cooper

  Attitude, Dirty, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone, rBGH). Milk contains IGF-1 for good reason: milk is designed for babies, and IGF-1 helps us grow. IGF-1 affects growth, as well as other functions, and is normally found in our blood. Higher levels of IGF-1, however, appear to stimulate cancer cells.

  Alison Stewart

  Baby, Confused, Blood

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• Being politicians, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer. Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft palate. And John McCain told how he once carried a brain dead woman through an entire campaign.

  Bill Maher

  Mother, Kids, Brain

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• I heard those words that every woman fears and never wants to hear, 'You have breast cancer.

  Joan Lunden

  Want, Heard, Breasts

  "Joan Lunden Opens Up About Cancer Battle and Losing Her Hair" by Michael Rothman, abcnews.go.com. September 24, 2014.

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• Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from ignorance as to how to have good prostate health. That someone is Roger Mason, and all that one needs to know in order to have a happy prostate has been distilled down into this one book. I would stake the health of my prostate on it, and can tell you as a prostate cancer survivor; it is the ONLY way to go.

  Dirk Benedict

  Book, Taken, Ignorance

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• I have experienced firsthand the tremendous impact breast cancer has on the women who fight it and the loved ones who support them. This is a disease that catches you unaware and, without the right resources, leaves you feeling frightened and alone.

  Ricardo Antonio Chavira

  Fighting, Impact, Support

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• I will be as callous and
  uncaring as you can imagine, I have no interest in paying for your health
  care. I`d hate to see you get cancer, but that`s your problem, not mine.

  Steve Lonegan

  Hate, Care, Problem

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• Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10.

  Ed Diener

  Patient, Scales, Ifs

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• In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.

  Diahann Carroll

  Powerful, War, Tools

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• My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

  Arabella Weir

  Friendship, Mother, Father

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• For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Important, Chance, Cents

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• I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

  Patrick Swayze

  Smoking, Pancreatic Cancer

  "Patrick Swayze Opens Up About Cancer Battle, Blames Smoking". Interview with Barbara Walters, www.mtv.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

  Allyson Schwartz

  People, Smoking, Effort

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• It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball

  "One-on-One: Charles Barkley talks LeBron, politics, Auburn". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. December 11, 2008.

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• By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Children, Father

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• How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Self, Sickness

  'Last Essays of Elia' (1833) 'The Convalescent'

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• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fate, Thinking, Achievement

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press

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• Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

  Amy Lowell

  Writing, Progress, Asking

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