Cancer Quotes - Page 3

• Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

  David Hackworth

  Fighting, Cells, Body

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• An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.

  Matthew Lesko

  Breasts, Screening, American Woman

  Matthew Lesko, Mary Ann Martello (1999). “Free Stuff for Busy Moms”, Information USA Incorporated

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• Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Disease, Mysterious, Headstrong

  "Ryan O'Neal: I love Farrah more than ever now" by Michael Inbar, www.today.com. May 13, 2009.

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• For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

  Larry Lucchino

  Distance, Benches, Labs

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• We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

  LL Cool J

  Differences, Giving, Awareness

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• It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Differences, People

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• For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

  Lance Armstrong

  Teaching, Winning, Simple

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• Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

  Farrah Fawcett

  War, Challenges, Mind

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• You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

  Dave Pelzer

  Survivor, Mindset, Victim

  "I was never about boo hoo hoo". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2008.

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• 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

  Fate, Survival, Littles

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

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• If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Children

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• Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

  Jim Valvano

  Fighting, People, Changed

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• I feel like I had zero control over getting cancer, but I have 100 percent control over how I will respond to dealing with cancer.

  Kay Yow

  Zero, Feels, Percent

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• I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

  Jonas Salk

  Cells, Viruses, Would Be

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• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jealousy, Jealous, Cancer Survivor

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• I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

  Delta Goodrem

  Perspective, Stressed, Used

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  Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

  Angelina Jolie

  Choices, Challenges, Scare

  "Angelina Jolie's mastectomy account raises awareness of gene testing" by Ed Pilkington and Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2013.

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• The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being
  interfered with by prayers.

  Bret Harte

  God, Prayer, Religion

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• Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Risk, Needs, Facts

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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

  Knees, Firsts, First Time

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

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• I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general.

  Herbie Mann

  Men, Foundation, Awareness

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• I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

  Jodi Rell

  Mortality, My Own, Has Beens

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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, Survivor, Norway

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• You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

  Goodman Ace

  Father, Teenager, Science

  The New Yorker (1977)

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• This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

  Charlotte Ross

  Sister In Law, My Future, Breasts

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

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