“Like so many of life's varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of malignant cancer has a tendency to wear off.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You all know I have terminal cancer-and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
“But in their defense of the supernatural, fundamentalists and their evangelical heirs resemble some cancer patients. In facing a drastic disease, they… — Mark A. Noll Copy Share Image
There is a lot of focus on TV, in magazines...about being skinny and rich. I don't think those are that important. It's… — Laura Evans Copy Share Image
I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them.… — Cote de Pablo Copy Share Image
Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
…chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases,… — John Diamond Copy Share Image
There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same… — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
“The answer is good things only happen to you if you're good. Good? Honest is more what I mean... Be anything but… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics is a bit like the difference between biology and medicine. Knowing that certain genes increase the… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
“Cancer is tangible. People feel compassion for you if you get cancer. Not so much if you're an alcoholic. And a mother… — Amy Hatvany (Yurk Copy Share Image
One reason milk consumption may lead to cancer risk is insulin-like growth factor, IGF-1 (not to be confused with bovine growth hormone,… — Alison Stewart Copy Share Image
The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never… — Gilda Radner Copy Share Image
Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health… — John Gofman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
“Cancer is often associated with death but is also very much about life. It is about the basic principles of biology, the… — Jarle Breivik Copy Share Image
In 1980, a woman promised her dying sister to change how Americans thought about breast cancer. Thirty years later, the result -… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Innovation, sending civilians to outer space, mapping the mind, curing cancer - all these things, they're great. Obviously these same companies are… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this,… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Cancer begins and ends with people. In the midst of scientific abstraction, it is sometimes possible to forget this one basic fact.… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
I don't want to say, 'I want to cure cancer.' It's such a grand thing. People have been trying for so long… — Eva Vertes Copy Share Image
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
For the better half of my early 20s, I was Bubble Girl. When I found out I had leukemia at 22 my… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
“The proof that eating red and processed meat increases your risk for colorectal cancer is so convincing, the American Institute for Cancer… — Sharon Palmer Copy Share Image
When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
More than 40 years after the war on cancer was declared by President Richard Nixon in 1971, we are not much closer… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T… — Laurie Glimcher Copy Share Image
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Should I talk about [having breast cancer]? Because how many things could I have? You know black, lesbian - I'm like, I… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Mammography will remain a controversial issue because it is an imperfect tool involving ionizing radiation. Let's move beyond this method that is… — Margaret Cuomo Copy Share Image
When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer… — David Baltimore Copy Share Image
I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
“Only one person was conspicuously missing from the (American Society of Clinical Oncology, ASCO) party - Dennis Slamon. Having spent the afternoon… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Tests showed cancer of the larynx and the doctor advised an operation immediately. I was informed that my larynx had to be… — Jurgen Neukirch Copy Share Image
Senator John McCain is unlike anybody else in not - not just in the Senate but in American politics. He's unlike anybody… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image