Chemotherapy Quotes
42 quotes by 35 authors
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For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.
— Melissa Etheridge
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And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my…
— Chuck Klosterman
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I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.
— Lois Capps
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A study was done which shows the majority of oncologists who refer patients for chemotherapy for lung cancer would not themselves take chemotherapy for lung…
— Ralph W. Moss
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The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and…
— Ralph W. Moss
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I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in…
— Julian Whitaker
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The survival rate of Dr Burton's patients approximately doubled the maximum survival rate of conventionally treated patients. Had these findings pertained to a chemotherapy drug…
— Jared Diamond
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...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 to the death…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced.... Toxic…
— Ernst T. Krebs
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I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.
— Steve Garvey
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
— Jaclyn Smith
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to…
— Maggie Smith
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For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired.…
— Grete Waitz
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[M]ilitary metaphors have more and more come to infuse all aspects of the description of the medical situation. Disease is seen as an invasion of…
— Susan Sontag
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Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute…
— Ralph W. Moss
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NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!
— Samuel Epstein
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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. Patients who underwent…
— John Diamond
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1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments,…
— Ralph W. Moss
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....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be…
— John Diamond
Who Wrote These Chemotherapy Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 42 Chemotherapy Quotes, led by these top contributors: