Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cancer cells emit different metabolic waste products than normal cells. The differences between these metabolic products are so great that they can be detected by a dog's keen sense of smell, even in the early stages of disease.

Cancer can have an enormous impact on someone's income and many people don't realise that they are eligible for financial help from the Government.

I'm cancer free, totally cancer free, ... I stand before you a completely healthy person.

If our kids had cancer, we could fight it. But we've got nothing to fight. We just sit and watch them die.

If people are serious about breast cancer, they have to deal with secondhand smoke. That's what this is all about.

Jerry Doyle

If somebody was smart enough right now to come out and say, "You know what, we've got the people, we've got the money, we've got the time - let's cure cancer by the end of the decade." If we don't try, shame on us - because we can do it.

If you are able to successfully reduce your tobacco use you will, in all likelihood, reduce lung cancer risk. But people find it very difficult to reduce their smoking and stay reduced and, secondly, while risk is reduced, it still remains very high.

Steve Parris

I have three children. My wife and I try to do what we can to help other families. I try to look at the goodness in life. There are children with cancer who cannot help themselves. They need help and that's where you can lend a hand.

I had to drive myself, and radiation makes you very tired. This is a Godsend for cancer treatments.

Infections could be a trigger for the onset of the cancer in a limited number of susceptible individuals, those with a genetic predisposition.

Paula Zahn

I'm excited by the complete shift in attitudes. Twenty years ago, when I did my first report on colorectal cancer, there was tremendous resistance (from news directors).

Paula Zahn

I'm excited by the complete shift in attitudes, ... Twenty years ago, when I did my first report on colorectal cancer, there was tremendous resistance (from news directors).

I met 92-year-old Isabelle Thomas in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She has fought four different types of cancer and just refuses to give up. She is just one of the dozens of reasons why I'm walking.

I left Virginia and for the first hour or so, I kept thinking, 'What are you doing?' but as I continued on, I realized just how many Americans are impacted by cancer and my resolve kept growing,

I left that country thinking perhaps a miracle could still happen, but obviously the cancer, which started out six months ago is now terminal cancer.

Montel Williams

I'm a cancer doctor and an HIV doctor, and if I have a drug that gives people relief of pain, increases their appetite, decreases nausea, and perhaps improves their mood, that's an important drug to be able to give people, especially with cancer who are at the end of their life.

I never expected that I would have cancer. You always think that it happens to someone else.

The message that we are trying to get out to everybody is that if you do hear those words, 'I have cancer,' don't ignore it because you don't want to know, go get started. While not every cancer is cured, the quality of life is better now and the response to side effects have been successfully eliminated and reduced.

The cancer was contained within the prostate and has been completely removed. We expect that his cancer is cured.

The cancer project scales up to well over 100 Human Genome Projects.

Ray Liotta

I'm getting older, I wanted to have that opportunity to play someone who goes from his twenties to someone dying of cancer in his sixties.

Nancy Reagan

Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."

Margaret Walker

I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

Kurt Cobain

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

Kevin Whately

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

Khaled Hosseini

It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

Khaled Hosseini

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.

Jaclyn Smith

Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

David Roberts

The evidence is quite clear to us. If you're Taurus, Aries or Cancer we're more likely to see you in the charts.

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