Cancer Quotes - page 4

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure. (David Agus)

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

David Perlmutter

I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

Geraldine Brooks

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

I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.

Jon Lord

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

Eve Ensler

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

Eve Ensler

I'm in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I'm a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I'm doing handstands.

Eve Ensler

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

Zoltan Istvan

Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.

Kris Carr

I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think. (Kris Carr)

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

Kris Carr

Cancer is very chaotic.

Kris Carr

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

Kris Carr

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

Kris Carr

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

Kris Carr

I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

Lawrence LeShan

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

Darren Aronofsky

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

Bill de Blasio

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. (Paul Davies)

Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs.

Paul Davies

I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

Jermain Defoe

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

Judy Collins

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

Mary Lasker

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