Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thinking happy thoughts is not the way to cope with the stress of having cancer.

Think about breast cancer. It can take seven years for breast cells to go from pre-cancerous to cancer, to a cancer that's palpable. So these results may simply be too early.

The word is slowly getting out. During the last week of December we got an unbelievable number of donations, a lot of them from cancer survivors or relatives of cancer patients.

The risk of dying of breast cancer increases as BMI increases, ... The risk of dying of colon cancer increases in the overweight as well as the obese.

This is a revolutionary project. It's going to empower all cancer researchers with an entire new set of data to work with.

This is an interesting and important finding in cancer research alone, but we also thought that the horse's naturally low calcium levels might limit cell division in vitro.

David Cameron

This is important news for Scotland as it means those women diagnosed with higher risk breast cancer will be able to have a better chance with this drug.

This is her whole thing, ... cancer is something she has. It is not who she is.

This is one in a series of reassuring study results that shows there is no credible evidence to indicate an excess risk of any form of cancer due to breast implantation.

This isn't just about breast cancer. It's about all types of cancer. Everybody's out there for one goal ... to help raise money to find a cure.

This gives some evidence that milk might be linked to increase risk of ovarian cancer, but more research is needed.

The most fundamental problem we're dealing with is we don't know the cause of breast cancer. But we will find out.

You're treating not just the cancer -- you're trying to treat the whole patient and you're trying to encourage them to maintain a normal life.

You're in your 40s and you've got breast cancer, but everybody in your family has died of a heart attack. It's clear that for the appropriate people this is going to be the appropriate treatment.

Young people need to know that they can significantly reduce their risk of getting skin cancer later if they start protecting their skin from the sun now.

Babe Ruth

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

Brian Tracy

My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.

Brian Tracy

Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

Al Gore

The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

Charles Jencks

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

Harry Browne

From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us.

James Wolfe

I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

Jared Diamond

The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug instead of IAT, massive amounts of funding would have been allocated to investigate the drug. Once again, the politics of cancer barred a potentially valuable treatment from reaching the public.

Janet Napolitano

It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention.

Jane Wiedlin

I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

Eric Topol

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging.

Delta Goodrem

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

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

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

Delta Goodrem

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

Delta Goodrem

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

Richard G. Scott

If one of you has seriously sinned, repent-now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.

Ricky Gervais

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer