Alive Quote by Hal Huggins

I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the breast area…

— John Diamond

“Working with your ex-husband was almost as much fun as a double root canal. Without anesthesia. Doing it in front of television cameras was…

— Wendy Wax

I was born with a tumour wrapped around my spinal cord that was cut out when I was only a couple of days old.

— Dylan Alcott

Her face crashes. She hasn't dealt with a single transfusion or lumbar puncture. She wasn't allowed near me for the bone-marrow transplant, but she…

— Jenny Downham

The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.

— Larry Ziegler

She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an…

— Helen Hodgman

When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10…

— Marianne Williamson

In 1995, I discovered I had two brain tumours. The process of having them removed went on for about three years. It was a…

— Martin Kemp

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

— Jennifer Grey

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, I…

— James Randi

The operation was a success, but I'm afraid the doctor is dead.

— Steve Martin

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves;…

— Nguyen Quyen