Bleak Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I…

— Natalie Goldberg

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer…

— Marianne Faithfull

“Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years…

— Tony Parsons

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

— Marcia Wallace

We all know that the earlier cancer is detected the more successful treatment will be, and my cancer had spread to my ribs and…

— Mazie Hirono

It's much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope... It was stressful. I was terrified getting the…

— Farrah Fawcett

“This was the tenth month of my "fellowship" in oncology - a two-year immersive medical program to train cancer specialists - and I felt…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic formations. They…

— Wilhelm Reich

“Once I had been diagnosed with a terminal illness, I began to view the world through two perspectives; I was starting to see death…

— Paul Kalanithi

Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

— Viv Albertine

I had a PET scan, and it was cleared. Not one cell of cancer after three rounds of chemo. But I still had seven…

— Abby Lee Miller

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of…

— Molly Ivins