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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
On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps. -- Hill Harper
I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, and I knew it was in the food, so I changed my diet. -- John Salley
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world. -- Rosa DeLauro
Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide. -- Paul Davies
It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due to the role of this virus family in the induction of cancer of the cervix. -- Harald zur Hausen
For people who don't know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. I've been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor. -- John Barrasso
Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one. -- Cote de Pablo
I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false. -- Junot Diaz
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer. -- Hamilton Jordan
Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends. -- Bobby Heenan
We've also seen another future we could choose. First of all, we'd have the right to choose. It's an America in which no one can charge us more than men for the exact same health insurance; in which no one can deny us affordable access to the cancer screenings that could save our lives; in which we decide when to start our families. -- Sandra Fluke
An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does. -- Terry Tempest Williams
When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her. -- Ann Jillian
When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too. -- Terri Clark
The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family. -- Wayne Swan
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma. -- Landon Donovan
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, -- Landon Donovan
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. -- Greg Anderson
I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer. -- Brenda Song
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family. -- Rima Fakih
Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family. -- Tom DeLonge
I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all. -- Jenny Downham
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did. -- Jenna Morasca
My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer. -- Brian Krzanich

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