Cancer Quotes · Page 17

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

— Lance Armstrong

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

— Pierce Brosnan

Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.

— Michael Greger

Losing my sister to cancer was... That was the worst thing in the world, man.

— Guy Fieri

Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.

— Willie D

“Surviving cancer is cool, but surviving old age is cooler.”

— Jarod Kintz

Cancer prevention requires awareness, determination and creativity.

— Margaret Cuomo

“Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer," I told him. "Nah, nostalgia is a side effect of dying," he answered.”

— John Green

So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as…

— Kathryn Joosten

“If you’ve recently learned that you have a brain tumor, keep this in mind: You are a statistic of one.”

— Peter Black

What if the cure for cancer is trapped inside the mind of someone who cant afford and education.

— Anonymous

Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.

— Ananda Shankar Jayant

Any charity that aids or supports trying to find a cure for cancer is very close to my heart. My mom had…

— Jennette McCurdy

Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.

— Jeff Gordon

I just don't want to be known as the face for cancer. It is one part of my life. Yes, it was…

— Manisha Koirala

I think it's safe to say people are going to be interested in Kim Kardashian's love choices for the next 30 years.…

— James Woods

When I finally returned home after my five-week hospitalization, I could feel the stares of strangers on my bald head and thinning…

— Suleika Jaouad

I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would…

— Stephen Young

[Gilda Radner] died in '89, and I got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2000. I've just passed the five-year mark and I'm now what…

— Gene Wilder

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most…

— Anonymous

I know people are pretty well embarrassed just at the mention of colon cancer. Sticking a tube in you to find out…

— Eric Davis

“Yet the hunger to treat patients still drove Farber. And sitting in his basement laboratory in the summer of 1947, Farber had…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about…

— Amy Schumer

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

— Christopher Hitchens

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

— James D. Watson

If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.

— George Carlin

Time is like cancer without treatment which is eating us away day by day.

— Vikrant Parsai

Kids aren't suppose to have cancer, they're suppose to have a future.

— Jeff Foxworthy

I'm not going to criticise Nick Boles because he fought off cancer.

— Mark Francois

“I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical.”

— Truman Capote

“What issues sidetrack you from your mission to get well?”

— Shirley Corder

Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from.

— Robert Atkins

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

— Kid Rock

People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

— Nancy Reagan

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

— Patrick Swayze

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

— Kris Carr

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

— Dick Francis

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

— Kevin Richardson

We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.

— Samuel Epstein