I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

Imagine that the world had created a new ‘dream product’ to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their...

Why can someoneget so sick that the only way to get better is to make them more sick?It’s like the world’s longest exorcism. It doesn’t make sense that I canchat with someone live on a...

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

One day I was walking into the cancer center and I saw him sitting there. He couldn’t believe I had cancer. He sat me down and talked to me and gave me a lot of...

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain’t no hospital going to lock him out.

If it’s possible to send a message from heaven, I’ll get one to you.

Love will cost you dearly.And it will break your heart.But in the end, it will save the world.

When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma.

When life is going according to plan, we don’t stop to question our daily habits…Maybe it’s time to sift through our lives.

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.

Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.

gift,” was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before—one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only...

Talk to your doctors about what cancer screening tests are best for you. It could save your life.

For our cervical cancer vaccine we pursued the objective of inducing a strong immune response and protection that lasts. We are encouraged by a sustained enhanced antibody response we saw with an HPV vaccine formulated...

If you say you can or you can’t you are right either way

[If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious.

What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart...

I truly believe that the children who are diagnosed with cancer are some of the wisest, sweetest, strongest, and most loving children. They have gained a bigger perspective of the world in such a short...

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

For whatever time I have to live, I intend to enjoy myself.” – Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live.

I took on cancer like I take on everything – like a mission and a job to accomplish.

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

The president could announce a cure for cancer, and the pictures would be some protesters from Code Pink trying to put a pie in his face.

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

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can’t be treated just where it’s visible – every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.”No.”It might be important.”It might make her die.

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace…

Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance; Annie Wright’s stroke.

He was one of the few people who had spoken to me as though his words were not rocks and I was not glass.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

The “I love you”s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.

The luxury of relaxation … is part of the healing process.

To me the fact that we don’t have a screening test for the biggest cancer killer in the nation is the best indicator of how little resources have been put toward this disease. It is...

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting treatment, and my parents had to mortgage the house to pay for it. I spent Christmas...

The evidence is quite clear to us. If you’re Taurus, Aries or Cancer we’re more likely to see you in the charts.

There’s increasing … data that says if men get early detection for prostate cancer, the death rate in that population goes down.

Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

work. play. passion.

The sight of cancer-ridden lungs and yellowing teeth may reinforce a non-smoker’s decision not to light up, but does nothing to convince those already addicted. The reason for this is a mixture of denial and...

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

…it occurred to me that maybe Samson’s hair wasn’t the source of his strength; maybe it was the symbol of his strength. And maybe when Delilah cut off his hair, he didn’t lose his power...

Beauty is sometimes born of pain

In God’s strength I could battle the giants. Alone, I was just a grasshopper.S

I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.