“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
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The best diet for overall health, and specifically for heart, brain, and cancer risk reduction, is a diet that's aggressively low in… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
...One of the side effects of (surgery, anesthesia,) X-ray..., and chemotherapy, is the suppression...of the patient's immunological defenses...A simple cold often leads… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened… — Terry Tempest Williams 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
In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
What you going through right now; it wont last forever, especially if you're willing to get rid of the cancer, work hard… — London Mond Copy Share Image
“That evening I sat across from Jeremy Bulloch and Jacob at the dinner table. I watched as Jeremy, who seemed to speak… — Mary Potter Kenyon Copy Share Image
I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has… — Terry Fox Copy Share Image
It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn't even quite sure… — Natalie Palmer Copy Share Image
Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these… — John Green Copy Share Image
“You are so high in the tree. If you jump you will live a full life while falling. You will get married… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which,… — Lothar Hirneise Copy Share Image
“I learned a lot about medicine in those years, but I learned more about human nature. I learned about bravery and resilience,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
As agonizing a disease as cancer is, I do not think it can be said that our civilization is threatened by it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks… — David H. Koch Copy Share Image
People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
Aside from certain rare cancers, it is not possible to detect any sudden changes in the death rates for any of the… — John Cairns Copy Share Image
People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and… — John Green 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience… — Suzanne Somers Copy Share Image
Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple,… — Jenna Morasca 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
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
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
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
“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