All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver’s license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a...

You’re a mystery.

I don’t want fear or cancer to define me, but it’s always in the back of your mind.

Our strategy is to focus on women to try to prevent cervical cancer in the most cost effective way. We intend to seek licensure for a broad age range.

I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will...

Even though we couldn’t find an association with colorectal cancer, fruits and vegetables definitely protect for other important diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and potentially other cancers. These are some of the best...

Don’t tell me you’re one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It’s disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you...

She wished she had cancer instead. She’d trade Alzheimer’s for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With...

We need this because 230,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year,

For the population to increase and for cancer to decrease, that’s a major step. We are making progress. We just need to keep making progress by continuing to fund cancer research.

I feel like I’ve lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I had an idea of what was wrong with him. Blake did too, because we’ve talked about cancer before, and he knows what I do at my job.

They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock....

Top question of the dying: “What made me sick?

The National Cancer Institute wants to make certain the results of clinical research are rapidly disseminated to healthcare providers and patients, to ensure life-enhancing cancer treatments are widely available.

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking,...

It is going to, for once, cause people . . . to really look at this coalition as protectionist, and recognize what a cancer they have become for NAFTA,

I had to sell my cigarette boat, for fear it would cause cancer.

It’s really going to happen. I really won’t ever go back to school. Not ever. I’ll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I’ll never go to college or have a job. I won’t...

Love”I’m in love with you,” he said quietly.”Augustus,”I said.”I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not...

I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?

If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, thenit was all worth it.” And I’d reluctantly agree that cancer had been agift in our lives. We’d both seen the other alternative: patients...

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

Awareness Makes a Cure Possible.

The devil sought to destroy me and discredit my testimony. But God wanted me where I would testify to others about his saving power.

It’s a sad thing that it takes a celebrity’s death to highlight that this is the leading cancer killer of both men and women.

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into...

In our first 14 months of treatment, we have succeeded in slowing the progression of my prostate cancer down to an almost negligible level, … (My wife) Jean and I are thrilled and incredibly relieved...

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.