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The [Tumor Treating Fields] patients can undergo all the activities of their daily life. There's none of the tiredness. There's none of what is called the 'chemo head.' -- William Doyle
I beat a brain tumor. -- Arlen Specter
I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor. -- Lou Gramm
Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet. -- Dave deBronkart
Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed. -- Chris Smith
I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months. -- Jennifer Grey
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again. -- Mark Ruffalo
I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it. -- Sandy Duncan
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. -- Henry Adams
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
Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor. -- Paul Stamets
Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong. -- Eve Ensler
Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start? -- Dave deBronkart
Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine. -- Cynthia Kenyon
Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
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
The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect it very, very early, so that it won't kill anybody. We'll zap it at the molecular level decades before it grows into a tumor. -- Michio Kaku
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties. -- Christopher Hitchens
I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment. -- Eric Davis
Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both. -- Geoffrey West
That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.' -- Jim Carrey
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared. -- Charles Duhigg
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were. -- Hannah Murray
If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over. -- Eric Topol
That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me. -- Eric Massa
If God's in me, he's a tumor. -- Lee Tergesen
Is there a tumor in your humor? -- Robbie Williams
I had a tumor. But it was great. -- David Rakoff
I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead. -- Woody Allen
I don't get depressed; I grow a tumor instead. -- Woody Allen
You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor. -- O. R. Melling
I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching. -- Jim Harrison
Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles. -- Jack London
Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor. -- Christopher Moore
When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor. -- Lissa Rankin
It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain. -- J. D. Salinger
Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor. -- Bryant McGill
I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
If you want to really understand about a tumor, you've got be be a tumor. -- June Goodfield
Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor. -- Elizabeth Holmes
Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor. -- James Lovelock
When you give government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumor until it extinguishes society itself. -- Stefan Molyneux
Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. -- T. Colin Campbell
For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening. -- Bernard Holland
Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience that's seared. -- Heather Day Gilbert
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. -- John Green
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride. [It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.] -- Dante Alighieri
It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
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
There should be no more shame in acknowledging (mental illness) than in acknowledging a battle with high blood pressure or the sudden appearance of a malignant tumor. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters. -- Katie Couric
Think of the war against terrorism. In my view, Washington's approach can be compared to a doctor constantly banging away at a tumor instead of removing it surgically. -- Bashar al-Assad
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before. -- Vladimir Nabokov
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130) -- Stephen Batchelor
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination. -- Edward Dahlberg
When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself. -- Lewis B. Smedes
I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul. -- Lee Atwater
You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth. -- Arj Barker
So far, I am a cancer survivor, but 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

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