The estimated total number of iatrogenic deaths-that is, deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic… — Gary Null Copy Share Image
Much like the removal of moles and skin lesions is done to prevent them from growing into more serious skin abnormalities, removing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I just want it to stop. All of it. The pain. The suffering. The fucking cancer. I want it gone. I need… — Amanda Maxlyn Copy Share Image
Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
After approximately two decades and several billion dollars…Among the various types of cancer that account for 78% of the incidence..the upward trend… — Daniel S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Getting diagnosed with cancer at 22 really magnified the in-betweenness that I felt. All of my friends were starting careers and going… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
...this charity...They quibble too much over procedures...while we seek a cure. They complain too loudly against another who, seemingly, has perfected a… — Roland V. Libonati Copy Share Image
“Miraculously, cancers go into remission. People recover. Is it possible, Tom Laughlin asks, that the disease itself evolved as a consequence of… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget that these are… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
What does it mean to be an oncologist? It means that you get to sit in at a moment of another person's… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“The researchers noted that their most important finding may be that cholesterol consumption was a strong predictor of cirrhosis and liver cancer.… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
“And where the words of women are crying to be heard, we must each of us recognize our responsibility to seek those… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
“an average of $94,000 during the last year of life with a metastatic breast cancer. Our medical system is excellent at trying… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The most surprising fact that people do not know about breast cancer is that about 80% of women diagnosed with breast cancer… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
At the age of 22, I began to consider my own mortality. It had never occurred to me that, with all of… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
“The role played by stress in the causation of cancer is so great that it would not be an exaggeration to say… — Cass Ingram Copy Share Image
Working on 'Scrubs' made me feel guilty because I realized that if I had decided to become an actual doctor, instead of… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I… — Eva Vertes Copy Share Image
“You see, when I was growing up I watched my mother battle with cancer...she died when I was 15 after going through… — Fwah Storm Copy Share Image
We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
For people who are afraid to talk about cancer, for people who are afraid to communicate with their loved ones about it,… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
I had kept notes during my cancer treatment, but I wasn't sure what my outcome was going to be. A part of… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
We went through the records and we found over five hundred of his patients who were alive and well five years after… — Gary Null Copy Share Image
We are literally in the heart of Jesus," he said. "I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally… — John Green Copy Share Image
I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't even in the alphabet,… — Craig Sager Copy Share Image
Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Everyone knew that fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the dieting hysteria and applauded the "real" women's body.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
