Cancer Survivor Quotes - Page 2

• A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

  Don Drysdale

  Baby, Cancer, Cuffs

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• I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

  Harold Pinter

  Pain, Cancer, Arses

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• I personally know women who are Breast Cancer survivors and will do all I can to support the cause. Besides, I love boobies!

  Jane Wiedlin

  Cancer, Support, Survivor

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• Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.

  Alan Bennett

  Cancer, Illness, Bores

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Untold Stories”, p.473, Faber & Faber

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• Being a breast cancer survivor, as I like to call myself - it will be twenty years next year - I did it to make it possible for women to do regular self breast examinations. It's really important - and, it makes common sense: you know your body better than the doctor does who only sees you once a year, you know?

  Olivia Newton-John

  Cancer, Self, Years

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Two, Victory

  "Armstrong shows them who's boss" by Keith B. Richburg, www.sfgate.com. July 29, 2002.

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• So far, I am a cancer survivor, but 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

  Cancer, Cells, Anxiety

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• Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

  Terry Fox

  Running, Cancer, Health

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• I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

  Grete Waitz

  Fitness, Cancer, Survivor

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• For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. Ive been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

  John Barrasso

  Cancer, Years, Medicine

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• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

  Warren Beatty

  Fun, Cancer, Cures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.

  April Winchell

  Fun, Cancer, Today

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• Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

  Andrew von Eschenbach

  Cancer, Greatest Fear, America

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• Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from ignorance as to how to have good prostate health. That someone is Roger Mason, and all that one needs to know in order to have a happy prostate has been distilled down into this one book. I would stake the health of my prostate on it, and can tell you as a prostate cancer survivor; it is the ONLY way to go.

  Dirk Benedict

  Cancer, Book, Taken

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• Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

  Marla Sokoloff

  Friendship, Mom, Cancer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

  Michael Landon

  Cancer, Trying, Beats

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• I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Cancer, Kids

  '60 Minutes' With Ed Bradley, www.cbsnews.com. December 28, 2003.

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• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  Harold Pinter

  Death, Cancer, Cells

  Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. September 14, 2002.

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• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Lee Haney

  Cancer, Heart, Holiday

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• Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Cancer, Cutting

  Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Thwing (1919). “Newer Roosevelt messages: speeches, letters and magazine articles dealing with the war, before and after, and other vital topics”

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• I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

  Kathy Griffin

  Cancer, Apologizing, Chemotherapy

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• Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

  Olympia Snowe

  Cancer, Simple, Long

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• I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

  Mel Gibson

  Spiritual, Cancer, Happens

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• Look, I'm a cancer survivor, all right? So I have great personal empathy for people who have pre-existing conditions and can't get insurance.

  Carly Fiorina

  Cancer, People, Empathy

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• And I'll tell you, honestly, folks that I talk to, the 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in America, that I am one of, understand that we're done with insurance companies dropping us or denying us coverage because of - because we have a preexisting condition.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Cancer, America, Survivor

  "Reps. Ryan, Wasserman Schultz on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2010.

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