Famous Quotes & Sayings

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos

Siddhartha Mukherjee

It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.

Sheryl Crow

Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.

Sharon Jones

Not only do I say, get up and get out, I tell the cancer to get up and get out. And if you don't get up and get out, I'm going to shout you out. And I get to shout.

Sharon Osbourne

I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.

Natalie Goldberg

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

Natalie Goldberg

The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

Natalie Goldberg

I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.

Natalie Goldberg

The first thing is how awful it [cancer] was, the experience. You know, when you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

Natalie Goldberg

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

Natalie Goldberg

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

Natalie Goldberg

I read Eve Ensler and thought it was fabulous. Not only that, but it was really the only thing I could relate to about cancer.

Kate Morton

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

Kate Moss

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

Laura Ziskin

Cancer is everybody's cause.

Laura Ziskin

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

Laura Ziskin

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

Landon Donovan

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma,

John Caudwell

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

Lindy Boggs

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.

Linus Pauling

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.

Lindsay Lohan

I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed.

Phil Crane

Despite the fact that a predicted 350,000 persons in the US will die of cancer this year, the cancer bureaucracy keeps a closed mind. ...the basic issue is not the efficacy of Laetrile, but the infringement of freedom in what amounts to a life and death question.

Peter Jennings

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

Kent Conrad

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Lesley-Anne Down

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

Lee Haney

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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

Laura Bush

When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other thing that's very important is that heart disease...is preventable. There are some specific lifestyle changes that women can make: losing weight, not smoking, exercising, eating healthy foods. Knowing the risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, [being] overweight. And if you have heart disease in your family, you should see your doctor. Because this disease is preventable.

Thom Yorke

Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.