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There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one. -- Jim Beaver
Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer -- Kyle Massey
"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing. -- Billy Graham
One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning to love and accept myself unconditionally is what healed me and brought me back from the brink of death. -- Anita Moorjani
I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned. -- Jose Gonzalez
If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead. -- Junot Diaz
The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in and arrests these people, put them in prison with mandatory, sometimes life sentences. This war on drugs is totally out of control. If you want to regulate cigarettes and alcohol and drugs, it should be at the state level. -- Ron Paul
More men die of jealousy than of cancer. -- Joseph P. Kennedy
Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer. -- Dick Francis
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer. -- Bill Gates
In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function. -- Sandra Dee
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. -- Hill Harper
I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making. -- Clive Owen
I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much. -- Gertrude B. Elion
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' -- Andrew Lo
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. -- Meg Rosoff
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal. -- Eve Ensler
As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well. -- Kate Jackson
For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies. -- Kevin Richardson
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. -- Christopher Hitchens
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it. -- Arabella Weir
Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control. -- Wendy Davis
I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest. -- Jello Biafra
My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened. -- David Morrell
Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. -- Anita Moorjani
depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. -- John Green
I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor. -- John Green
"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?) -- Babe Ruth
My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer. -- Geoffrey Canada
...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia. -- Sherman Alexie

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