1,237 Quotes About Cancer

I cannot stress this enough times; scientists need to stop making more and more artificial mouse models and tissue culture cell lines for cancer drug development. These resources can and should be invested in better pursuits. No one, however, willingly surrenders their pet projects, no matter how far they have drifted from the original intent, as long as they can maintain their grip on grants and power.

We should not be aiming for weeks of improved survival. Our goals should be higher. The public needs to see how far we have drifted from the original aims as oncologists and researchers and at what cost to the patient.

Why is it that the word "cure" cannot be found anywhere on the American Cancer Society website?

The experience of cancer has taught me one important truth at least: that we are never - or never need be - alone.

Celebrate the life you have and never give up on the living...

Those of us who have been through cancer know that surviving treatment isn’t where the cancer journey ends. In fact, for many of us, this is where the hardest part of the journey begins.

Where is the support and guidance for what comes after the treatment? Shouldn’t someone prepare us for what comes next?

There needs to be more guidance and support for the next part of the cancer journey, otherwise we survive the treatment only to get back into life and fall straight flat on our faces.

Having cancer, fighting cancer, and beating cancer have been THE defining events in my life, and though it was the most terrifying, I know that it has changed me for the better, forever.