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I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me. -- Eric Davis
It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Essiac is a therapeutic tea that all cancer patients can benefit from. -- Robert Atkins
My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients. -- Zach Braff
I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live. -- Charles Jencks
To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System. -- Luther L. Bohanon
Being too happy is bad for you. 8 on 1 10-scale is just right. Eg. cancer patients are more likely to survive if they're at an 8 instead of 9 or 10. -- Ed Diener
Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify. -- Barry Lynes
People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die. -- John Green
In 1975, the respected British medical journal Lancet reported on a study which compared the effect on cancer patients of (1) a single chemotherapy, (2) multiple chemotherapy, and (3) no treatment at all. No treatment 'proved a significantly better policy for patients' survival and for quality of remaining life.' -- Barry Lynes
A one year study by the Washington Post has documented 620 cases in which experimental drugs have been implicated in the deaths of cancer patients....And they amount to merely a fraction of the thousands of people who in recent years have died or suffered terribly from cancer experiments... -- Ted Gup
Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem. -- David D. Burns
We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through. -- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.' -- Yusuf Hamied
I have always made a distinction between healing and curing. To me, 'healed' represents a condition of one's life; 'cured' relates strictly to one's physical condition. In other words, there may be healed quadriplegics and AIDS patients, and cured cancer patients who are leading unhealthy lives. -- Bernie Siegel
Not having hair makes me feel like a cancer patient. -- Amanda Bynes
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival. -- Lothar Hirneise
I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes. -- Lothar Hirneise
He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally. Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
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
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests. -- Margaret Mead
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. -- Jennifer Aniston
We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane. -- Greg Anderson
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better. -- Michel Onfray
The Who' created the Daltrey/Townshend Center at UCLA for teenage hospital patients with cancer. It's the only one of its kind. -- Nolan Sotillo
The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start. -- Amy Hoggart
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
Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live. -- Kris Carr
Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug is combined with existing therapies. -- Alex Berenson
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
We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific. -- Peter Jackson
In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. -- Ike Skelton
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer.' -- Bernie Siegel
I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
I have had a number of patients with breast cancer, all of whom had root canals on the tooth related to the breast area on the associated energy meridian. -- John Diamond

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