1,237 Quotes About Cancer

When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

It doesn't mean we'll have a cure for cancer, but it means many new therapies will develop.

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.