Cancer Quote by Michael Lewis

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an…

— Patty Duke

One of my surgical giant friends had in his operating room a sign "If the operation is difficult, you aren't doing it right." What…

— Joseph Murray

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for…

— Kris Carr

I now turn down patients who want an operation but they will have very little gain from it.

— Terry Dubrow

When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My…

— Suzanne Somers

…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…

— John Diamond

Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of…

— Jonathan Alter

You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have…

— Atul Gawande

I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have…

— Jonathan Levine

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no…

— Mark Sheppard

My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.

— Hardin B. Jones

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have…

— Lindy Boggs