I have been a vegetarian for about 10 years. And it really was due to the reading that I did. And they… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell… — John Green Copy Share Image
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his,… — Grete Waitz Copy Share Image
At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this… — Laura Ziskin Copy Share Image
Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the… — Herbie Mann Copy Share Image
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die.… — Brittany Maynard Copy Share Image
Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race,… — Michael Marmot Copy Share Image
A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away… — Marissa Jaret Winokur Copy Share Image
While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are. — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I heard that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined - when I heard that, I knew. The other… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level. — Eric Shanteau 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
The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody… — Robert Altman Copy Share Image
Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways,… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away.' It's just important, just go get checked out.… — Peter Criss Copy Share Image
That is the beauty of cancer, it tells you that your days are limited, that you could die at any point. It… — Shelley Hamlin Copy Share Image
...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford. — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people. — John Green Copy Share Image
