Cancer Quotes - Page 7

• Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Lists, United States, Stories

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• I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

  Erika Slezak

  Survivor, Mammograms, My Family

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• African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well.

  Frank C. Garland

  White, African American, Survival

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• If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Mean, Priorities, President

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• Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

  Michael McCaul

  Children, Loss, Not Good Enough

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• Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

  Delta Goodrem

  People, Gone, Want

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• I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'

  Delta Goodrem

  Numbers, Australia, Events

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• I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

  James Randi

  Past, Doctors, Years

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• Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.

  Nelson Mandela

  People, Giving, Publicity

  "Mandela's son dies of AIDS at 54", www.cnn.com. January 7, 2005.

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• They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Grief, Life Is, Incredibles

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• The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

  Gilda Radner

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Productive Life

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• It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.

  Robin Roberts

  Fighting, Time Management, Fright

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• Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better.

  Michael Milken

  Alzheimer's, Disease, Kidneys

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• In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child.

  Michael McCaul

  Sister, Mom, Brother

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• All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.

  Ornette Coleman

  Mind, Suffering, Elements

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

  Arlen Specter

  War, Thinking, President

  "Specter Claims Kemp Would Be Alive if Congress Better Funded Medical Research", www.foxnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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• And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!

  Jim Valvano

  Fighting, Thinking, Years

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.

  Sheryl Crow

  Possibility, Millions

  "Sheryl Crow undergoes cancer surgery, postpones tour". www.mtv.com. February 25, 2006.

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• We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

  El-P

  Struggle, Fighting, Cures

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• Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

  Joni Rodgers

  Fire, Profound, Illness

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• My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

  Sean William Scott

  Dad, Years, Burying

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• I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

  Michael Landon

  Trying, Beats, Dies

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• I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

  Julie Gold

  Hopeful, Littles, Dip

  Interview with Angela Page, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.

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• Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Cutting, Justice

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Race, Survivor, Cures

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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