Chemotherapy Quotes

• In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Taken, Knives

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• It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Hell, Closest

  "Stone Phillips: 15 Years of Dateline". "Dateline" NBC (The Profiles in Courage) with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. July 2, 2007.

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• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  Maggie Smith

  Cancer, Want, Peculiar

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• For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

  Grete Waitz

  Couple, Tired, Sick

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• Most people think, "Life sucks, and then you die." I disagree. I think life sucks. Then you get cancer. Then you go into chemotherapy. You lose all your hair, you feel bad about yourself. Then all of the sudden the cancer goes into remission, and then all of the sudden you have a stroke. You can't move your right side. And then, maybe, you die.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Cancer, Moving

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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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, Heard

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• I look upon cancer in the same way that I look upon heart disease, arthritis, high blood pressure, or even obesity, for that matter, in that by dramatically strengthening the body's immune system through diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise, the body can rid itself of the cancer, just as it does in other degenerative diseases. Consequently, I wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation because I'm not interested in therapies that cripple the immune system, and, in my opinion, virtually ensure failure for the majority of cancer patients.

  Julian Whitaker

  Cancer, Heart, Exercise

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• Two to 4% of cancers respond to chemotherapy....The bottom line is for a few kinds of cancer chemo is a life extending procedure-Hodgkin's disease, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL), Testicular cancer, and Choriocarcinoma.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Two, Lines

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• Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

  Eric Topol

  Dark, Age, Looks

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• Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

  Jenna Morasca

  Hurt, Opponents, Hurting You

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• ....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be "prolonged" beyond the point at which death would be expected without treatment. This type of survival is not the same as a cure or even restored quality of life.

  John Diamond

  Cancer, Survival, Quality

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• A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy .

  John Diamond

  Strong, Lying, Cancer

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• The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Two, Childhood

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• I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

  Lois Capps

  Children, Israel, Increase

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• I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

  Steve Garvey

  Fall

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• 1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Stars, Years, Long

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• NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!

  Samuel Epstein

  Cancer, Years, Mortality

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• It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Years, People, Insane

  "Chuck Klosterman: The future will be worse than you think". Interview with Chris Weller, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2016.

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• Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Feelings, Poison

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• I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

  Nancy Reagan

  Schedules, Radiation, Kind

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• If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Might, Radical Change

  Ralph W. Moss (1996). “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment”

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• Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

  Jaron Lanier

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Tests, Sanity

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• The bracelet says 'Fear Nothing.' It was given to me by my friends, and it was made for me and my friends during the period of time that I was going through chemotherapy. And I still wear it, because it's a great reminder of friendship and how my buddies and others came together in my time of need.

  Joe Lhota

  Together, Needs, Made

  "Joe Lhota: The Daily News Sitdown". Interview With Celeste Katz, www.nydailynews.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Book, Doctors

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