All Quotes

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
‐‐ Harold E. Varmus

Cancer is a disease of the genome. And that's what happens. You make mistakes in a cell somewhere in your body that causes it to start to grow when it should've stopped, and that's cancer. And those mistakes are mistakes of DNA.
‐‐ Francis Collins

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.
‐‐ George Carman

Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank.
‐‐ Regina Brett

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.
‐‐ Kelly Corrigan

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

Cancer is an emotional disease.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
‐‐ Hans Rosling

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.
‐‐ Paul Henderson

Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Cancer is just a horrible disease.
‐‐ Kevin Richardson

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.
‐‐ Eddie Van Halen

Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect it very, very early, so that it won't kill anybody. We'll zap it at the molecular level decades before it grows into a tumor.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
‐‐ Regina Brett

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
‐‐ Elizabeth Edwards

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

Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
‐‐ Laura Linney

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
‐‐ Abbey Clancy

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.
‐‐ Kris Carr

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

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
‐‐ Joni Eareckson Tada

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.
‐‐ Andrew Lo

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.
‐‐ David Agus

Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while... But now I've reached a point where I don't think about cancer nonstop anymore, and sometimes I worry about that - I'm going to forget what I went through; I'm going to forget how horrible it was.
‐‐ Sarah Addison Allen

Cancer is very chaotic.
‐‐ Kris Carr

Cancer isn't going to slow me down.
‐‐ Ethan Zohn

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
‐‐ Alan Bennett

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.
‐‐ Greg Anderson

Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.
‐‐ Cote de Pablo

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

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
‐‐ Johnny Ramone

Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?
‐‐ Jaclyn Smith

Cancer taught me to live only in the day I'm in. In the moment I'm in. Some moments, I simply ground myself by touching the desk, the table, the wall wherever I am and say, 'You're right here. Stay put in this moment.'
‐‐ Regina Brett

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.
‐‐ Regina Brett

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.
‐‐ Paul Davies

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
‐‐ Ingrid Bergman

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.
‐‐ Kathryn Joosten

Cancers of all types among women are increasing.
‐‐ Gro Harlem Brundtland

Cancun is the only place I've ever visited outside America.
‐‐ Jason Behr

Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!
‐‐ Kandyse McClure

'Candida' was difficult: stimulating but very wordy.
‐‐ Frank Dillane

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.
‐‐ Reince Priebus

Candidates and their consultants keep making the same mistake. They assume that all independents are bundled neatly together ideologically between Republicans and Democrats.
‐‐ John Sununu