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.

Cancer – a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

With breast cancer, it’s all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

We have solid scientific evidence that screening through an organized program can reduce cancer deaths and, in some cases, even the incidence of certain cancers. Existing cancer screening has helped reduce the cancer toll in...

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I’d rather not belong to.

This is sham therapy. It has absolutely no effect on cancer cells. And tragically, some consumers lost a lot more than $15,000. They lost time.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side...

There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you’re sixteen, and that’s having a kid who bites it from cancer.

The continuing decline in the rate of cancer deaths once again affirms the progress we have made against cancer, … But the report also highlights the need for an acceleration of research as the population...

So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that, a failure of the imagination? Are you in denial? This is not wholly...

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. – Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

When you’re no longer ill, and everyone’s gotten over the fact that you’ve had cancer, that core of steel doesn’t go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.

In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.

She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten out inside, as light and fragile as a pine log infested with white...

I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn’t really lose

If everything works out — if IGF-2 status is tied to colon cancer risk in people and the blood test is workable — then IGF-2 status could be the colon cancer equivalent of cholesterol levels...

The danger in that is that you find yourself promoting cancer.

The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall.

We observed that women in the low-fat diet group had a 9 percent lower risk of breast cancer than the usual diet group, but that difference could be due to chance.

But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue….No taste or smell or touch...

Quoi qu’on lise sur le cancer (brochures, sites Internet ou autres), on trouvera toujours la dépression parmi les effets secondaires. Pourtant, le dépression n’est pas un effet secondaire du cancer. C’est mourir qui provoque la...

Yeah, I’ve heard that one before—okay, impress me, Delilah Walker. What exactly makes you different?

His dad died from colon cancer in 1994, in May.

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

If people are serious about breast cancer, they have to deal with secondhand smoke. That’s what this is all about.

There’s 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that.

La ciencia encarna el deseo humano de entender la naturaleza; la tecnología conjuga ese deseo con la ambición de controlarla.

blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines...

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

It seems that cancer is a direct result to injury. If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung cancer arises. If you drink, you damage your liver, and then liver cancer occurs.

We’re not disputing that there is a plausibility that secondhand smoke could cause breast cancer. All we’re saying is that the evidence has just not reached that level.

It is my understanding that when you receive a Autism diagnosis for your child you have to accept it. If you don’t you are only condemning yourself and your child to a life of frustrating...

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

I’m going to beat this cancer or die trying.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

He can heal me. I believe He will. I believe I’m going to be an old surely Baptist preacher. And even if He doesn’t…that’s the thing: I’ve read Philippians 1. I know what Paul says....

The pain he feels in his own gut is either something to do with the caffeine, or the stress of realizing that if it’s not snipers or blindness stealing your children, it’s cancer coming to...

(Cancer) is a problem I just want to try and help fix in any way possible. I believe that you have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

There’s only one way to become an eagle, and that’s to be born an eagle.

Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you’re faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

Always find the funny.

While it’s encouraging that the proportion of women in organized breast cancer screening programs has increased over time, in 2003 participation was only 34 per cent nationally.

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.