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.

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