I could be a lot worse, when you hear of people struggling with heart disease or cancer. When you’re in athletics all your life, as I’ve been, you learn to deal with the environment. In...

50,000-63,000 individuals in the United States and 19,000-25,000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D.

Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

There are more studies, the risk estimates are more consistently elevated, and they’re higher than they were for lung cancer. Plus, there’s all these toxicology studies and molecular biology they didn’t have back then.

We need biomarkers that tell us how the cancer will behave.

Jesus…remains in control of my circumstances, no matter the size of the waves.

En el folclore de la ciencia hay una historia muchas veces contada sobre el momento del descubrimiento: la aceleración del pulso, la luminosidad espectral que adquieren hechos comunes y corrientes, el segundo de parálisis y...

…gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)

We are eager for this technology to be widely available to physicians and their lung cancer patients, as it can help identify those who are likely to dramatically respond and survive for extended periods of...

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.

Women with breast cancer almost universally die from it within 10 years if they don’t get treated, … It’s quite different with prostate cancer. Many, if not most, men will live over 10 years with...

These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it’s a one time event: ‘I’ve got cancer.’

Because really, what do you have to lose? Your life? That’s no big deal, I promise you. When you find out you might die, you’re finally allowed to live like you never have before. If...

When I was diagnosed I didn’t know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

With organization comes empowerment.

We had all just participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life at the high school, when we stay awake for about 24 hours straight. We were a little sleepy.

Approximately 80 percent of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40 percent of cancer could be avoided through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use.

God, who knows me by name, [is] right next to me.

Stay positive, stay strong, stay together and just keep going!

I was scared and didn’t really know much about cancer and how bad it really was.

Almost all the world is natural chemicals, so it really makes you re-think everything. A cup of coffee is filled with chemicals. They’ve identified a thousand chemicals in a cup of coffee. But we only...

A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the...

It’s a real mark of leadership to bring people together. The cancer center is indisputably going to be a great thing for the state.

I’m holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.

Our ‘ study, while early, adds to growing ‘ evidence ‘ that pomegranates ‘ contain very powerful agents against ‘ cancer, particularly prostate cancer. There is good reason now to test this fruit in humans...

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET...

Jeg tror, grunden til, at jeg kan bevare positiviteten, er, at jeg aldrig slår for store brød op. Jeg vælger IKKE at bestige bjerge.

They’re great because we’re seeing younger and younger women, with breast cancer and it’s not a sentence. They don’t detach until you take it off so they can wear their tank tops and their strapless...

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.

We didn’t tell the story of a cancer patient. This movie is about the run and the great thing that he did. It’s a really personal story, too, just four main characters, Terry, his friend...

You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?” Fat said. “There are worse diseases than cancer.””Did he show you slides?”We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh...

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren’t really aware of as a family.

You are so high in the tree.If you jumpyou will live a full lifewhile falling.You will get marriedto a hummingbirdand raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancerin mid-air. I will not lie. It...

It doesn’t mean we’ll have a cure for cancer, but it means many new therapies will develop.

The best way to deal with ‘Change’ is to lead it!

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess...

Deaths from cervical cancer could drop even lower if more women routinely had a Pap test. Because cervical cancer produces no symptoms in the early stage, regular screening is extremely important.

I’m going to make people happy. I’m going to make them forget about their cancer. I’m going to make them forget about their diabetes.

Instead of a bucket list Someday Challenge™ wants you to create your Someday Slate™, a list of the things that you have promised yourself to do, things that you planned to do someday! Completing your...

Everyone’s dying, Milcah. Some people are just dying sooner than others.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

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

With the power of bioinformatics, we now have banks of cancer genes. We can analyze them and look for candidates in other cancers.

Help me to get my eyes off my suffering and onto you, God.

It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.

once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39)

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had...

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.