Cancer Quotes

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

CancerSystemComplexJustDisease

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

Paul Davies

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Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

Tom Brokaw

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

Marcia Wallace

PeopleMoreHardSurvivingCancer

In truth, I barely knew my father at all. He was 53 when I was born, and when I was ten he contracted cancer. Eight years later, in 1979, he died.

Rory Bremner

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In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'

Keith Gessen

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I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

Mary Lasker

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In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

Iyanla Vanzant

DaughterSurpriseRareCancerUs

The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

CorruptionPovertyAttentionCancer

Cancer is something none of us are prepared to deal with. We're here to help people through the process.

Yael Cohen

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While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives.

Juan Williams

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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

MyselfThoughtUnfairNeverCancer

We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.

Jon Porter

WorkResearchNationCancerSource

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Olivia Newton-John

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Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

David Wilkerson

CancerDaughtersOurBothAlso

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

Jack Ramsay

SayingLanguageDevilCancerEnglish

People now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer, and some of the other things.

Chris Collins

PeopleDieNowCancerThingsSome

Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.

Harald zur Hausen

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Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.

Cobie Smulders

BestMeCancerGetDidThankfully

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.

Gary Weiss

GrowthGreatFocusProblemCancer

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

Bonnie Hunt

MaturityYouCancerGainBeingWard

In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.

Barbara Ehrenreich

CancerPrettyBeingGoingSure

Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?

Anne Wojcicki

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I hate to talk about typecasting, because being typecast as Columbo ain't cancer.

Peter Falk

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