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.

The most fundamental problem we’re dealing with is we don’t know the cause of breast cancer. But we will find out.

I really thought she was going to die before I could tell her that I was going to die, too.

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

I’ve learned so much during my time with cancer. It’s taught me a lot about who I am. It revealed to me my true goals and priorities. It introduced me to a brand new world...

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

I’m not afraid of being dead. I’m just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

Indie authors write, design, sell. Like magic, skip one and you make must read vanish.

When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer.

You cannot conceive of the depths of my sorrow, Campbell Maria Cooper.” Alicia brought her fist to her mouth and her other hand to the rail of the bed and took a deep breath before...

One never meets Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment as it comes… One never gets the total impact of what we call ‘the thing itself.’ But we...

We think they do have a great pipeline in the areas of cardiovascular, cancer and AIDS. These are the fastest growing areas in the pharmaceutical industry.

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought “ha, if I was a God-botherer, I’d be thinking,...

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again...

Our study — while early — adds to growing evidence that pomegranates contain very powerful agents against cancer, particularly prostate cancer.

Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she’d been with Augustus, but I didn’t. I couldn’t see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn’t seem to be much...

I’ve beaten the odds so far. Only 10 to 20 percent of women with ovarian cancer live past five years. And I’m lucky. Even though the cancer keeps coming back, I’ve never felt sick or...

Cancer is cancer. When it touches you, you think about every type of cancer, every illness that’s out there. This is one very small way I can give back to another cancer survivor.

We feel honored to be a part of this meet. Breast cancer has touched many lives and we want to help in the fight against this disease. Although Florida and Alabama are rivals in the...

I’m not one of those people who think that cancer is some kind of jousting match. People live or die based on good medicine, good luck, and the grace of God. The people that die...

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is I’ve never felt better in my life.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

I’m a researcher, so I’m realistic that there’s nothing I’m doing that’s going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down.

Let the cancer patients suffer.

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there’s nothing to be afraid of, I won’t know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about...

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.

Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It’s been a shock.

You know what the doctors call me? ‘The Cancer Warrior.’

Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, ’cause it’s gonna have a long day doing it.

Kidney cancer is one of the cancers that they don’t have many treatment options for and everything is pretty much experimental.

This case is not about money because this boy is a cancer victim of stage four who is in danger of death. There’s no way you should go through the criminal justice system if what...

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my...

It happened five months apart almost to the day. For fraternal twins to both get this cancer is very rare. As I understand it, it is the first time fraternal twins were treated for cancer...

I’m an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I’m also associated with St. Jude’s.

What issues sidetrack you from your mission to get well?

The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.

One might say my life has been tragic. Yet, as I sat in pain in the hospital I raised my tired hands toward the sky, palms facing in, fingers spread, and I gave thanks.

We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death.

I am the sky and nothing can stick to me. The sky is open and vast and stays unchanged no matter what; it is always the sky. A storm can roll through it, an airplane...

Maybe it’s our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

We’re doing breast conserving surgery, we’re doing colorectal cancer surgery and very few people have colostomies that are permanent and we’re doing limb preserving surgery for sarcomas so that the surgery is still equally effective,...