Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenna Morasca

Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.

Fran Drescher

I definitely do support The American Cancer Foundation, as well as a myriad of other cancer groups and hospitals.

If dogs can detect cancer early, we wanted to investigate it. If you get time, you get hope.

Colonoscopy has proven to be an effective method for preventing colorectal cancer by detecting and removing polyps that have the potential to develop into colorectal cancer as well as finding early cancers that are more effectively treated.

Colon cancer takes about 10 to 15 years to develop, and follow-up of the study was only 7 years." ()

Colon cancer screening is probably one of the most underused ways to save one's life from cancer that exists.

Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer in women, and it's the third leading cause of cancer-related death in women.

Colorectal cancer is a lethal disease, but certainly a preventable one if screenings are done at the appropriate time and intervals. Education and screening are the keys to preventing colorectal cancer.

Our results suggest that adeno-associated virus type 2, which infects the majority of the population but has no known ill effects, kills multiple types of cancer cells yet has no effect on healthy cells.

Andrew Chan

Our study did find a protective effect of long-term aspirin use on risk of invasive colorectal cancer, but only at dosage levels considerably higher than those used to prevent cardiovascular disease.

Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer deaths in the United States. That fact has held true over the last 20 or 30 years.

Bobby Heenan

Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.

This study demonstrates the importance of familial factors in the general development of cancer. These susceptibility factors can be environmental but are more likely to be influenced by genetic factors because genes control pathways common to a number of cancers.

We don't have in this report how much that would go down. It's obviously not going to go to zero because we will always have people with cancer and stroke.

We don't have in this report how much that would go down, ... It's obviously not going to go to zero because we will always have people with cancer and stroke .

We are seeing a 50 percent reduction in the risk of colon cancer when we compare the top 20 percent of the population of women who in mid-life are exercising at the equivalent of an hour of walking a day,

The rate of early cancer detection was better than what we see in the general community. But it remains to be seen if that translates into a mortality benefit. It is too early to make any recommendations regarding chest X-rays as a lung cancer screening tool in the general population.

Colin Cooper

This work is potentially very important in terms of understanding how prostate cancer develops, but the results must now be confirmed in a larger number of prostate cancer samples.

We have wig care and last December, we were certified by 'Look Good, Feel Better,' part of the American Cancer Society, to teach cancer patients things they can do to look good.

Sam Taylor-Wood

When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

Pierce Brosnan

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon.

We have thousands of patients and family members, ... who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

E. B. White

We have the opportunity here to support important causes and cancer touches so many people in the community.

Sarah Addison Allen

Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while... But now I've reached a point where I don't think about cancer nonstop anymore, and sometimes I worry about that - I'm going to forget what I went through; I'm going to forget how horrible it was.

We need to understand why younger women are more likely to get the disease, why there are molecular differences in lung cancer between men and women, and why there are treatment differences between men and women.

We have learned first-hand the dangers of smoking and the tragedy of lung cancer,

Boris Yeltsin

We are obliged to put an end to the spread of the cancer of terrorism,

We have a growing number of breast-cancer survivors who face a very difficult decision about whether or not to use HRT,

Vail Valley Medical Center was one of the first big donors. We had to have a spot adjacent to the cancer center and they donated the land.

We've done focus groups by the dozens and people find it motivational, ... They get the message and recognize it's colon cancer and are supposed to go to their doctor and get a test.

While it's encouraging that the proportion of women in organized breast cancer screening programs has increased over time, in 2003 participation was only 34 per cent nationally.

David Grant

We've opened up a lot of doors in Washington and hopefully the individual states. It needs to happen. I want to see very intense research into treatment of lung cancer and early detection.

The reason this study is so important is because it's the longest follow-up study of cancer in women with breast implants. There needs to be enough time between exposure and cancer development.