Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease. — Lawrence LeShan
Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. — Gilda Radner
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. — Olivia Newton-John
If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more — Jim Stynes
Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds. — Rachel Grady
Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can. — Grete Waitz
Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans. — Edie Falco
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. — Jim Valvano
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live. — Stuart Scott
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse. — Patrick Swayze
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I AM a SURVIVOR, NOT a victim. — Patricia Buckley
My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways. — Gary Lineker
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
I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life. — Marilyn Buck
Short Cancer Survivor Quotes
Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old. — Olivia Newton-John
I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective. — Delta Goodrem
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived." — Craig Scott
Survival is your strength not your shame. — T. S. Eliot
Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived. — Lysa TerKeurst
Inspirational Cancer Survivor Quotes
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell. — Lance Armstrong
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms. — Cynthia Nixon
I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me. — Christina Applegate
We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.' — Wanda Sykes
One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything. — Kylie Minogue
I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight. — Carly Simon
I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift. — Olivia Newton-John
I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time. — Amy Robach
Breast Cancer Survivor Quotes
I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups. — Erika Slezak
My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30. — Kate Walsh
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
I am a breast cancer survivor. I was intrigued to learn how many people prefer to talk to someone if they are familiar with their face, like an actor or a politician. So, I began traveling around the country and doing speeches. — Diahann Carroll
I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer. — Mary Ann Mobley
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
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
Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer. — Lynn Redgrave
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 Survival Quotes
I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to. — Terry Fox
I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard. — Cam Newton
Most cancers require high glucose to proliferate and survive. In mice, a low sugar, high protein diet reduced tumor size & death rates, indicating that lowering blood sugar levels & increasing protein may be a way to prevent & treat cancer. — David Sinclair
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased. — Ike Skelton
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions. — Ana Castillo
I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand, it's not toxic and my patients have reported feeling good while taking it, so why not support them? — Abram Hoffer
African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well. — Frank C. Garland
I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system. — Tammy Faye Bakker
So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different? — Michael Milken
Corruption is the biggest cancer that harms the vitality and combat effectiveness of the party, and anti-corruption is the most thorough self-revolution. As long as there is the soil and conditions for corruption, the fight against corruption will not stop for a moment. — Xi Jinping
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was. — Darren Aronofsky
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine. — Daniel Akaka
New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine. — Daniel Kahikina Akaka
Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it. — Jim Beaver
It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright. — Robin Roberts
What really matters is what you do with what you have. — H. G. Wells
Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in. — Olivia Newton-John
So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you. — Stuart Scott
Cancer Awareness Quotes
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. — Chris Van Hollen
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
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
American women are up to 10 times more likely to die from atherosclerotic disease than from breast cancer — Peter Attia
Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness. — Raisa Gorbacheva
We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible. — Devon Still
We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible. — John Green
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags. — Danica Patrick
Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it. — Herbie Mann
Beat Cancer Quotes
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it. — Kathy Acker
I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying. — Michael Landon
Everyday I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people that touch us. — Stuart Scott
Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me. — Hoda Kotb
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
The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it. — Henry Cisneros
When you die, that does not mean that you lose to cancer. — Stuart Scott
Happy endings are absolutely ludicrous, they're not true at all. We see the guy carry the girl across the threshold and everybody lives happily ever after -- that's bullshit. Three weeks later he's beating her up and she's suing for divorce and he's got cancer. — Robert Altman
I'm going to beat it, ...it's hard...but I plan on being around for a long time to come. — Laura Evans
Cancer Free Quotes
I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment. — Amy Weber
It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer, is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful. — Louis Gossett, Jr.
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
I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future. — Julie Gold
There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous wounds, old prides. And there is a time to die - a time for the blue, unburied child of our young years to be decently interred - and to get on with the living. — Josephine Winslow Johnson
I'm cancer-free right now. That's it. — Jon Lester
People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services. — Marianne Williamson
I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life. — Emmy Rossum
Breast Cancer Inspirational Quotes
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. — Pat Paulsen
When life kicks you, let it kick you forward. — Kay Yow
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. — Vladimir Lenin
Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis. — Olivia Newton-John
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With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong. — Walter Willett
I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends. — Sheryl Crow
I think after overcoming breast cancer, you sort of become fearless and somehow going up to your boss to talk about a possible promotion doesn't seem like such a daunting task anymore. — Hoda Kotb
My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations. — Olivia Newton-John
She had breast cancer. No one said she shouldn't run for governor. — Jodi Rell
Cancer Hope Quotes
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried — Terry Fox
Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! — Barack Obama
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. — John F. Kennedy
Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer. — Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.
The present treatments for brain cancer are not curative. We need new and better treatments. More funding for research. Legislation to improve the research system and to provide better access to care, treatment, and rehabilitation services for all brain tumor survivors. — Shannon O'Brien
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. — Harold Pinter
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. — Petrarch
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family. — Grete Waitz
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
I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way. — Kathy Bates
I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer. — Loni Anderson
Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.' — Michael N. Castle
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father. — Lance Armstrong
I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around. — Amy Schumer
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. — Jonas Salk
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 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
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. — Steve Ballmer
Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well. — Michael McCaul
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. — Bruce McCulloch
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. — Alan Bennett
Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors. — David Wilkerson
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
Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not, like, BALD? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa. THAT must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out. — Jordan Sonnenblick
Don't sit around playing Mr. Tough Guy. Don't say 'It's going to go away'... It's just important - just go get checked out. It's not like you're going to lose your manhood. — Peter Criss
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