1,237 Quotes About Cancer

  • Author Regina Brett
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    When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

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  • Author Regina Brett
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    Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable.

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  • Author Regina Brett
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    Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

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  • Author Robert Bristow
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    Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of gynecologic cancer deaths in the United States. That fact has held true over the last 20 or 30 years.

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  • Author Scott Bullock
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    Our major benefactor, Harold Alfond, (would like the cancer center completed) as soon as possible,

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  • Author Steve Ballmer
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    Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

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  • Author Steve Black
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    Since then, she's relearned how to read, how to write and how to drive. She fought back through all of it, but the cancer continued to spread. But we are still hopeful.

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  • Author Steven Bognar
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    We sent the film hoping they would consider it for a side showing. This tells the world this is not just an important medical issue - kids facing cancer - but it's a good film.

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  • Author Tobias Brambrink
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    One of the big concerns is if these stem cells express (produce) genes that can cause cancer. After implanting them into a patient, it would be cancer waiting to happen. You want to make sure that the cells you use for therapy are actually normal and are not in any way screwed up to start with.

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