One of the reasons I loved playing quarterback was that I got to call the plays. The cancer put me in a position where I really wasn't in control anymore.
Len Dawson
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There's nothing sexy about cancer.
Kris Carr
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Applying smarter IT to genomic data may offer the potential to cure many types of cancer and other diseases.
Joe Lonsdale
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Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.
Kevin Richardson
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The thing I'm most proud of is that I've raised a lot of money for certain charities - breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing 'The Graduate' for 11 months was fantastic.
Jerry Hall
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Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.
Hoda Kotb
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Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.
Joel Fuhrman
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I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.
Gordon Gee
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When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.
John Dickerson
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I have a platform to be able to do something to help other people beat cancer.
Freddie Freeman
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Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.
Melissa Etheridge
YouSayUpCancerGotShow
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.
Eve Ensler
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I'm allergic to the word 'important' in film and theatre. Cancer research is important.
Robert Sean Leonard
ResearchTheatreImportantCancer
I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.
Elizabeth Hurley
PeopleKnowCancerMakeWhoMany
Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.
Michael Greger
GrowthSleepPlayKnowCancerRole
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
David Frum
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I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.
Michael Douglas
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It seems everybody has been somehow affected by cancer, either through a relative or a close friend or somewhere, and they know how devastating cancer can be. And they see me, and I refuse to let it affect how I live and what I do.
Craig Sager
FriendLiveMeKnowSeeCancer
Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?
Steve Bannon
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With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.
Cathy Freeman
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There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
Alan Bennett
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Every era casts cancer in its own image.
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Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely.
Paul Kalanithi
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