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  • Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. -- Michael Douglas
  • I think governments are the cancer of civilization. -- Chuck D
  • Cancer is always funny. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • Cancer is very chaotic. -- Kris Carr
  • Lets Rock Cancer's World -- Benny Bellamacina
  • Cancer is everybody's cause. -- Laura Ziskin
  • Cancer don't respect nothing. -- David Chase
  • Cancer is not for sissies. -- Suzanne Somers
  • Cancer is a demonic pregnancy. -- Susan Sontag
  • Cancer is an emotional disease. -- Marina Abramovic
  • Cancer changes your whole life. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
  • Cancer research is a growth industry. -- George Carlin
  • Bitterness is like cancer. It eats... -- Maya Angelou
  • Cancer' is such a frightening word. -- Kris Carr
  • Cancer is just a horrible disease. -- Kevin Richardson
  • Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives. -- Ellen Pompeo
  • Cancer is a word, not a sentence. -- John Diamond
  • Cancer is enough to get my attention. -- Charles Grodin
  • You beat Cancer by how you live. -- Stuart Scott
  • Cancer is the growth of madness denied. -- Norman Mailer
  • Cancer isn't going to slow me down. -- Ethan Zohn
  • Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. -- Alan Bennett
  • Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. -- Dan Rather
  • Cancer doesn't care if you have suffered before. -- Jenna Morasca
  • (The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity). -- James D. Watson
  • Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old. -- Olivia Newton-John
  • Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show. -- Laura Linney
  • Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. -- Elizabeth Edwards
  • The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
  • Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • Cancer doesnâ??t care if youâ??re Republican or Democrat. -- Lance Armstrong
  • I'm much more of a Leo than I am a Cancer. -- Tim Gunn
  • You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.' -- Dick Dale
  • The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution. -- Tyler Jacks
  • Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors. -- David Wilkerson
  • Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • I'm a Cancer; I'm music-passionate. I like long walks on the beach. -- Will Ferrell
  • Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart. -- Greg Anderson
  • My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer. -- Jane Pauley
  • Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body. -- Andreas Moritz
  • Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. -- Bill Cosby
  • I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer. -- Cindy Crawford
  • The American Cancer Society has done the American public a really great disservice. -- David Baltimore
  • Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • I'm a Cancer; I'm music passionate. I like long walks on the beach. -- Will Ferrell
  • Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet. -- Michael Douglas
  • Cancer can take a long time to develop and necessarily has multiple causes. -- Devra Davis
  • I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers. -- Kid Rock
  • Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive. -- Paul Henderson
  • I'm allergic to the word 'important' in film and theatre. Cancer research is important. -- Robert Sean Leonard
  • I'm a Cancer, which means I'm maternal and emotional. So in relationships I'm screwed. -- Lindsay Lohan
  • Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. -- Anita Moorjani
  • Cancer can touch you, but not your soul; neither your thoughts, nor your heart. -- Vikrmn
  • Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience. -- Pierce Brosnan
  • Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done." -- Bruce McCulloch
  • Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. -- Bruce McCulloch
  • Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. -- Jennifer Aniston
  • Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives. -- Kevin R. Stone
  • Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.' -- Lydia Lunch
  • I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's. -- Sofia Vassilieva
  • I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer. -- Loni Anderson
  • Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. -- Steve Ballmer
  • Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones. -- Andrew Lo
  • This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth. -- David Mitchell
  • It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia. -- Olivia Newton-John
  • Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul. -- Thom Yorke
  • Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. -- Paul Davies
  • Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events. -- Steven Popkes
  • Cancer had a chance to break me down, but I was determined to fight back with strength and positivity. -- Samantha Harris
  • Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong. -- Johnny Ramone
  • Saying sulfates do not cause acid rain is the same as saying that smoking does not cause lung cancer. -- Andrew L. Lewis, Jr.
  • Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. -- Maya Angelou
  • [Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
  • Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable. -- Farrah Fawcett
  • This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. -- Harold Pinter
  • Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not. -- Michael Douglas
  • Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life. -- Ananda Shankar Jayant
  • Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases. -- John Simon
  • I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life. -- Geddy Lee
  • 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 is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime. -- David Agus
  • Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -- Neil Gaiman
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. -- Linus Pauling
  • 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
  • When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now. -- Herbie Mann
  • But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. -- Herbie Mann
  • There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection. -- Ann Jillian
  • Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker. -- Kate Moss
  • 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
  • That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.' -- Stuart Scott
  • Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate. -- Stephanie McMahon
  • With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer. -- Betsey Johnson
  • When you die that doesn't mean you lost to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live. -- Stuart Scott
  • We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure. -- David Agus
  • 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
  • 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
  • From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another. -- Stella Young
  • Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. -- Arlen Specter
  • Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of. -- Kurt Cobain
  • If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that. -- John Key
  • Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses -- Susan Sontag
  • Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011. -- Ray Comfort
  • The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. -- Gilda Radner
  • When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second. -- Regina Brett
  • My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being: a glass-half-full type. Like, when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her. -- Susanne Bier
  • f 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
  • 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
  • I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. -- Jim Valvano
  • 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
  • Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. -- Steven Weber
  • Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank. -- Regina Brett
  • The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work. -- David Suzuki
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