My dad died from cancer when I was 18, and my mom was in a really tough spot. So I wanted to… — Mike McCue Copy Share Image
Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of… — John Green Copy Share Image
People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
We have to really think about where our food is coming from. The hormones being put in the stuff we eat -… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not… — Andrew von Eschenbach Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to all the incredibly strong kids fighting cancer right now. Hope their Christmas wishes came true. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“cigarettes before climbing out onto the fire escape for her monthly ritual. With a shaky hand, she flicked her lighter to life… — Jez Strider Copy Share Image
Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and… — Geoffrey Boycott Copy Share Image
A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
The thought of going through a bone marrow transplant, which in my case called for a life-threatening dose of chemotherapy followed by… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you,… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of… — John Barrasso Copy Share Image
The most dangerous cancer cells are actually the ones that are more like stem cells, which have this ability to produce themselves… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“You cannot conceive of the depths of my sorrow, Campbell Maria Cooper." Alicia brought her fist to her mouth and her other… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
“She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
Cancer can no longer be classified according to the organ in which it arises. It has to be characterized in terms of… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
Sex can be a squeamish subject even when cancer isn't part of the picture, so the combination of sex and cancer together… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you, having cancer sucks, but being broke and having cancer is the shittiest fate that can land on a… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
“I’m cancer, Luce. And not the kind that you can kill off with radiation. The kind that kills you in the end.” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
Imagine being able to predict and prevent cancer before it starts. If we gather the world's talent and expertise in a committed,… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure to repetitive imaging. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
“The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.” — Michael Lam Copy Share Image
Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is. — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse. — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
“All I can control—for whatever fight I put up should a cancer make a comeback—is the time between.” — Joyce Wadler Copy Share Image
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying:… — Patrick Michaels Copy Share Image
“Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Cancers are fond of depending on others but once they learn to depend on themselves, they are unstoppable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone you know is diagnosed with cancer, give them a call or send them a letter to tell them how sorry… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But… — Jaclyn Smith Copy Share Image
A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis,… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer. — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30. — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
![“It was a very difficult time. I was working on [umble-Ardy] when my partner and friend was dying of cancer. We set up a room in the house to be like a hospital room. Eugene died, and then I had bypass surgery. I was doing the book to stay sane while all this was going on.” quote by Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/546/maurice-sendak-1273_book_it-was-a-very-difficult-time-i-was-worki_2340683.jpg)
