1,237 Quotes About Cancer

It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a certain behavior, but it also has a set of changes in the genes or in the molecules that modify gene behavior that allows us to categorize cancers in ways that is very useful in thinking about new ways to control cancer by prevention and treatment.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

We are the leading source of reliable information about cancer. We want to eliminate it as a major problem, but we are also here for the patients and for there loved ones.

The message that we are trying to get out to everybody is that if you do hear those words, 'I have cancer,' don't ignore it because you don't want to know, go get started. While not every cancer is cured, the quality of life is better now and the response to side effects have been successfully eliminated and reduced.

We need to understand why younger women are more likely to get the disease, why there are molecular differences in lung cancer between men and women, and why there are treatment differences between men and women.