Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olivia Newton-John

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

Paul Newman

Skin cancer rates will go up. Sunburns will occur at a faster rate, degradation of plastics and so forth, because of enhanced ultraviolet radiation from a lowering of ozone.

At this point, women should not be taking high-dose soy supplements, especially those who are breast cancer survivors and women at increased risk for the disease. We don't have long-term data on the effects of these supplements, and there is some evidence that they could be harmful.

The interactions we discovered in yeast could also help researchers select the human versions of these genes suitable as targets for the development of new, more targeted and less toxic cancer therapies.

Kate Moss

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer

Thom Yorke

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.

Terry Waite

If one can understand why people behave as they do then often the road to forgiveness is opened. Not only is forgiveness essential for the health of Society, it is also vital for our personal well-being. Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul. It does more harm to those that hold it than to those whom it is held against.

Terry Tempest Williams

I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.

Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

Karen Black

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.

Julie Gold

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 Gerberding

People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.

Joseph Pilates

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

Karl Kraus

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

Joycelyn Elders

Guns kill more teenagers than the other big killers - heart disease, cancer, and AIDS - combined.

Kathy Acker

My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer.""What's that?""You have to find out what caused it.

Julian Huxley

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

Paul Douglas

It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.

Paul D. Boyer

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer.

Paul Davies

It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

Paul Davies

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

Paul Davies

Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the biosphere. It's a phenomenon that is deeply related to the history of life itself, so by studying cancer I think we can illuminate the history of life itself and vice versa.

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

Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.

Paul Davies

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

Jonathan Alter

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

Jonas Salk

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

Justine Larbalestier

The only reason I've ever had to wear a hat is to avoid skin cancer.

Eric Shanteau

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

James McBride

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

Ellen Pompeo

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

Edward Brooke

When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.

The medical examiner hasn't gotten back to us yet. We know he had cancer of some sort, and that he had it for a while.