Why should I have been surprised?Hunters walk the forestwithout a sound.The hunter, strapped to his rifle,the fox on his feet of silk,the serpent on his empire of muscles—all move in a stillness,hungry, careful, intent.Just as...

There have been hundreds of papers on subjects from picking students for a school to predicting the survival of cancer patients.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I finally understand. Cancer is not a gypsy curse. It’s a huge smashing wave. It catches you and drags you out. And anybody can be spit back up, and anybody can drown. -The Lucky Place

Even in death, his heart was bigger than anyone else’s. About seven months ago, when the cancer appeared in his stomach, we were hoping that we could pull another rabbit out of the hat. But...

We live in truly unbelievable times. Autism is an epidemic in most westerncountries, western governments are nothing more than corrupt corporations, and corporations areroutinely suppressing information regarding the toxicity of many common household items. The...

This cancer genome atlas project is all about the progress that is necessary for us to make cancer a chronic and manageable condition that no longer causes the suffering and death that we see all...

I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman’s breast, you are cutting more than...

I definitely do support The American Cancer Foundation, as well as a myriad of other cancer groups and hospitals.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I’m tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I’ve opened up my own pathology center.

It’s all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.”Why are you saying that?”She might need permission to die, Cal.”I don’t want her to. She doesn’t have my permission.

We Let the Boat DriftI set out for the pond, crossing the ravine where seedling pines start up like sparks between the disused rails of the Boston and Maine.The grass in the field would make...

This is your war now.’ I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?’Some war,’ he said dismissively. ‘What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer?...

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.

Don’t you believe that Jacob can be healed?” some persisted, pressuringElizabeth to believe—just believe—and Jacob would be healed. Theunderlying message was that Elizabeth’s faith was not strong enough to save her son. I remembered then...

Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.

Punching a woman is like punching a one-year old black baby in the face

It’s so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.

Dana Reeve’s death highlights the fact that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women in the U.S., claiming 30,000 more lives annually than breast cancer. It is not unique that she...

The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor cells within an organism: that man was acting like a cancer on the...

My grandmother passed away from cancer, so this is a great opportunity to honor her. You just don’t want to forget people.

She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she’d been told. They took half your stomach out and...

This is a drug that controls cancer with almost no side effects. So, for us in the world of oncology to have that is a huge breakthrough. It’s a great drug, a great new discovery.

This will be an important test in detecting recurrence of bladder cancer, … People who have been treated now require years of expensive follow-up. If that could be avoided by having one negative telomerase test,...

One day, when I thought I was alone, I prayed in church. While making this offering before the cross, a parishioner came up to me, put her arm around my shoulder and prayed, ‘Dear God,...

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Cancer, he’d said near the end, is the great equalizer. It doesn’t care who you are or what kind of salary you make. It doesn’t give one damn if you are a good person or...

As J.R. I could get away with anything – bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of...

I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn’t do this to someone I hated.

An ounce of cancer prevention is worth a ton of cancer cure.

Please don’t preach at me—I feel bad enough already.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

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.