I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.' — Angelina Jolie
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
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
American women are up to 10 times more likely to die from atherosclerotic disease than from breast cancer — Peter Attia
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
It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time. — Hippocrates
Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model. — Jimmy Fallon
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. — Harold Pinter
Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. — Gilda Radner
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
It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street. — Paul Davies
The most dangerous heart disease:
strong memory — Nizar Qabbani
If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more — Jim Stynes
Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse. — Patrick Swayze
Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old. — Olivia Newton-John
Cancer Quotes
India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin. — Imran Khan
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others. — Terry Fox
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we’d have $22 million for cancer research, and I don’t care man, there’s no reason that isn’t possible. No reason! — Terry Fox
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
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller
For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense. — C. S. Lewis
Cancer Awareness Quotes
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
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
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
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
The cancer in me became an awareness of the cancer that is everywhere. The cancer of cruelty, the cancer of carelessness, the cancer of greed. — Eve Ensler
My mother died of ovarian cancer; I support organizations that raise awareness of this silent killer. Women's shelters - Jenesse Center in L.A. and the Primo Center in Chicago. Kovler Diabetes Center in Chicago. — Regina Taylor
Beat Cancer Quotes
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
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
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
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
Bone Cancer Quotes
You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children — Stephen Fry
The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic. — Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The ischium are also reforming and the illi (hip bones) likewise show diminution of bone lysis. No sane, honest physician could call this a "spontaneous remission." — Robert Willner
Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will. — Francesca Lia Block
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 was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well. — Gilda Radner
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
For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options. I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices. — Angelina Jolie
Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't. — Jill Scott
Nearly every BRCA mutation carrier's main concern is how to avoid the fate of relatives who have had, and possibly died from, breast or ovarian cancer. — Kristi Funk
Risk reduction for BRCA2 carriers includes taking tamoxifen. Removing ovaries prior to age 40 drops breast cancer risk in half. Ovarian cancer surveillance is unfortunately inadequate at early detection, but birth control pills reduce ovarian cancer incidence up to 60%. — Kristi Funk
I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded. — Terry Tempest Williams
The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated. — Al Gore
I think it's important for me as an actor that I say these are the issues I'm going to be committed to. One of them for me is women and children's health around the world and their rights;the other is ovarian cancer. — Nicole Kidman
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