1,237 Quotes About Cancer

This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.

What the Liberal government has constantly said is that they have $300-million that they wish to put toward chronic disease and they put cancer in that category. Well, cancer is a killer, it's not chronic and it's very disturbing that the Health Minister and this government has not been able to make the distinction.

I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.

'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon who's an agnostic, tough, grounded, scientific mind and she's hired by a Steve Jobs-type who's just been diagnosed with cancer to focus on near death experiences and what happens when you die.

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

Being able to do this gave me my hope and courage to face this disease I had to face every night when I went home and that's really why I'm here tonight ? is that hope. I had the hope that tomorrow would be a better day and, hopefully, a day without cancer and that's the same hope that we're all here for tonight.

My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done and not done. No hospitals, no invasive surgeries. He had a living will, which is like a narrative of your life that you get to finish. It was his legacy -- what he wanted to leave his family: emotionally, financially, spiritually.