Chemotherapy Quotes

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

— Christopher Hitchens

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

— Melissa Etheridge

“You wouldn’t believe all the nice people I’ve met at chemotherapy,” she”

— Ann Patchett

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

— Rashida Jones

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

— Steve Garvey

I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

— Barbara Boxer

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

— Michael Douglas

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

— Kathy Griffin

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

— Eric Topol

I used to take someone with me for the chemotherapy so I could do jokes. You always try and find something absurd.

— Jennifer Saunders

1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might…

— Ralph W. Moss

There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma…

— Suzanne Somers

I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I…

— Olivia Newton-John

I was told by six doctors over six days that they could start me on full-body chemotherapy. And I said, "If you…

— Suzanne Somers

I'd stop calling it "chemotherapy." I'd call it "transformational juice." Infusion suites would become "transformational suites" or "journey rooms."

— Eve Ensler

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good…

— Christopher Hitchens

Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent…

— Jaron Lanier

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel…

— Carly Fiorina

A study was done which shows the majority of oncologists who refer patients for chemotherapy for lung cancer would not themselves take…

— Ralph W. Moss

A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie.…

— John Diamond

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we…

— Abraham Verghese

That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were…

— Eric Massa

I had three sessions of chemotherapy so it was really tough, it was hard to go through it. But while I was…

— Yuvraj Singh

For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal…

— Geraldine Brooks

Insects leave (Madagascar periwinkle) Catharanthus roseus out of their diets. So, for that matter, do deer. The reason is that the plants…

— Allen Lacy

The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of…

— Ralph W. Moss

I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for…

— Julian Whitaker

“It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in…

— Steven Hall

“I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

— Jaclyn Smith

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

— Jenna Morasca

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

— Dean Koontz

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

I have leukemia, and my chemotherapy has destroyed my immune system.

— Eric Reeves

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

— Selena Gomez

Chemotherapy and radiation have side effects, and they can cause secondary cancers.

— Margaret Cuomo

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

— Nancy Reagan

“They say the Lord never gives us more than we can bear. This is only true of money and cleavage.”

— Joni Rodgers

Ever since a therapy dog visited me in the hospital during my first cycle of chemotherapy in May 2011, I became fixated…

— Suleika Jaouad

Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a…

— Amy Hoggart