Top Cancer Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Cancer quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Abraham Verghese
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
- Abraham Verghese
Collection: Cancer
Image of Robin Roberts
I am stronger than I thought I was. My favorite phrase has been 'This too shall pass.' I now understand it really well.
- Robin Roberts
Collection: Cancer
Image of Moby
If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25 percent, deforestation would cease, rainforests would be preserved, our water- and air-quality would increase, life-expectancy rates would increase, and our rates of cancer would plummet, so certainly, with that one action of becoming vegan you are quite effectively making the world a better place.
- Moby
Collection: Cancer
Image of Joel Salatin
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.
- Joel Salatin
Collection: Cancer
Image of James Agee
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.
- James Agee
Collection: Cancer
Image of John Robbins
Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.
- John Robbins
Collection: Cancer
Image of Sarah Wylie
Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.
- Sarah Wylie
Collection: Cancer
Image of Sharon Osbourne
I didn't even think of my breasts in a nostalgic way, I just wanted to be able to live my life without that fear all the time. It's not 'pity me', it's a decision I made that's got rid of this weight that I was carrying around.
- Sharon Osbourne
Collection: Cancer
Image of Rupert Murdoch
Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.
- Rupert Murdoch
Collection: Cancer
Image of Merle Shain
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
- Merle Shain
Collection: Cancer
Image of Jordan Sonnenblick
Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I'm a cancer survivor. Person #1: And how's that working out for you? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, used to have leukemia. Person #2: Dude, how come you're not, like, BALD? Me: Well, you see, I, uh, I had acute lymphocytic lymphoma when I was five. Person #3: Whoa. THAT must'a sucked. I once had my tonsils out.
- Jordan Sonnenblick
Collection: Cancer
Image of Paul Samuelson
Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.
- Paul Samuelson
Collection: Cancer
Image of Giuliana Rancic
I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it. To make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.
- Giuliana Rancic
Collection: Cancer
Image of Giuliana Rancic
Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.
- Giuliana Rancic
Collection: Cancer
Image of Margaret Walker
I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.
- Margaret Walker
Collection: Cancer
Image of Kevin R. Stone
Cancer may kill you, but when you look at the numbers, arthritis ruins more lives.
- Kevin R. Stone
Collection: Cancer
Image of Gale Norton
Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.
- Gale Norton
Collection: Cancer
Image of Tom Shadyac
Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.
- Tom Shadyac
Collection: Cancer
Image of Suzanne Somers
Cancer is not for sissies.
- Suzanne Somers
Collection: Cancer
Image of Suzanne Somers
I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.
- Suzanne Somers
Collection: Cancer
Image of Suzanne Somers
There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.
- Suzanne Somers
Collection: Cancer
Image of Lynn Redgrave
But when this happens to you - and I think other people would identify with this - suddenly, colors are brighter. You see everything.
- Lynn Redgrave
Collection: Cancer
Image of K.P. Yohannan
The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.
- K.P. Yohannan
Collection: Cancer
Image of T. Colin Campbell
The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.
- T. Colin Campbell
Collection: Cancer
Image of T. Colin Campbell
Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.
- T. Colin Campbell
Collection: Cancer
Image of T. Colin Campbell
A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.
- T. Colin Campbell
Collection: Cancer
Image of T. Colin Campbell
Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption.
- T. Colin Campbell
Collection: Cancer
Image of T. Colin Campbell
No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.
- T. Colin Campbell
Collection: Cancer
Image of Gilbert Adair
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
- Gilbert Adair
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
All cancers are alike but they are alike in a unique way.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer's life is a recapitulation of the body's life, its existence a pathological mirror of our own. Susan Sontag warned against overburdening an illness with metaphors. But this is not a metaphor. Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer was not disorganized chromosomal chaos. It was organized chromosomal chaos
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Siddhartha Mukherjee
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?
- Siddhartha Mukherjee
Collection: Cancer
Image of Olivia Newton-John
Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.
- Olivia Newton-John
Collection: Cancer
Image of Olivia Newton-John
I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.
- Olivia Newton-John
Collection: Cancer
Image of Cynthia Nixon
Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.
- Cynthia Nixon
Collection: Cancer
Image of Cynthia Nixon
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.
- Cynthia Nixon
Collection: Cancer
Image of Cynthia Nixon
Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.
- Cynthia Nixon
Collection: Cancer
Image of Mark Morford
Ronnie James Dio died the other day, quietly succumbed to a relatively sudden onset of stomach cancer and up and left the planet in a blaze of stage fire, dragonsmoke and general metal awesomeness. Maybe you heard.
- Mark Morford
Collection: Cancer
Image of Darren Shan
I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.
- Darren Shan
Collection: Cancer
Image of Gilda Radner
Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside.
- Gilda Radner
Collection: Cancer
Image of Dan Simmons
The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
- Dan Simmons
Collection: Cancer
Image of Paracelsus
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
- Paracelsus
Collection: Cancer