Cancer Quotes

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"I think it's very much a distraction to the ball club, and that is a cancer, you just get done playing the best team in baseball, the team has been playing very well, despite everything ... it's just a distraction, and it is a cancer,"

"My grandmother passed away from cancer, so this is a great opportunity to honor her. You just don't want to forget people."

"Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children's Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children's charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children's charity than the hunters donate we won't go hunting."

"Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer"

"Perhaps men not motivated to quit smoking for fear of heart attack or lung cancer will be motivated by this. It may be difficult to quit smoking, but it almost invariably proves far more difficult to live with the consequences of not doing so."

"Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope."

"One in three women will get cancer in her lifetime, and 58 percent of women say that they fear hair loss more than any other side effect of cancer. At Pantene we are passionate about women's hair and women's health, and we are introducing Pantene Beautiful Lengths as a personal, profound way Americans can support women in their life- changing struggle."

"More men die of jealousy than of cancer."

"Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."

"We need to get cancer patients near treatment and keep them near their families at the same time,"

"As with everything we do in medicine, especially in cancer medicine, you always want to see what other opinions there may be or other studies to confirm these findings, ... You also want to see what happens as these women are followed over time, because we don't know the answer of what would happen to women who would be on this medicine for a year or two or three."

"Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer,"

"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

"Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left."

"Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore."

"This trial is starting to show we can offer pancreatic cancer patients precious extra time with a new treatment that can be taken in tablet form. These results are an important milestone in the treatment of pancreatic cancer."

"You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school."

"I could be a lot worse, when you hear of people struggling with heart disease or cancer. When you're in athletics all your life, as I've been, you learn to deal with the environment. In a football game, one day it's snowing, the next day it's raining. ... You've got to deal with all those factors. That's just rubbed off on my life."

"What this does is provide plausibility that we should be reinvestigating ascorbic acid in cancer treatment. It's not ready for patients. Patients shouldn't get the wrong idea. We don't want to provide false hope."