It’s a curable type of cancer. Whatever will happen will happen.

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn’t get cancer. Lately he’d been chain-smoking like a felon.

In the long run, it’s very clear that we will discover how to cure cancer, … It’s just a question of time and a question of complete understanding. This is a major step in that...

I think unconsciously I was afraid that if she asked me how I felt, my unleashed grief and rage would kill us all. In some unadmitted corner of myself I was already weeping and screaming...

We are literally in the heart of Jesus,” he said.”I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.””Someone should tell Jesus,” I said. “I mean, it’s gotta...

I have kidney cancer. At this point in time, they feel very confident that they got everything. They run tests to make sure it hasn’t spread. There has never been an indication from anyone that...

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or...

I’ve always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

As I watched them file down the stairs, I didn’t cry and I wasn’t afraid. But I couldn’t tell if it was Jesus or the gin.

Let’s not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.

Please don’t tell me you know just how I feel–you don’t.

In an essay titled A View From the Front Line, Jencks described her experience with cancer as like being woken up midflight on a jumbo jet and then thrown out with a parachute into a...

I know I’m not supposed to argue with you when you talk about dying. And yes, you could die, Neil. But I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow. Either we need to...

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: “What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few...

Kuamini (mbali na imani, ambayo ni nia ya kujua kisichoweza kujulikana) ni kwa ajili ya vitu usivyoweza kuvielezea. Unaamini kwamba siku moja dawa ya UKIMWI au saratani itapatikana mahali fulani, ilhali huwezi kufanya majaribio ya...

to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.”We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we’re here. And we love disease. Cancer....

In the 1960s and ’70s, there wasn’t much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very new.

These data have to be interpreted cautiously since the observed association between consumption of French fries and breast cancer is dependent on the validity of the maternal recall of the diet,

I don’t think you’re dying,” I said. “I think you’ve just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

I’ve been a rock star since you were very young. But I’ve never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

The pink ribbon is an official trademark of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, and as such the foundation has the exclusive rights to use the mark in Canada and authorize its use by others. We...

In life we always have some measure of control whether it be over our emotions or choices, but when it comes to cancer? The only thing you can control is how you respond to it

Smokers live faster.

PRAISE FOR ‘THE JOURNEY HOME’Many saints are known and praised by all. We pray to them in litanies and celebrate their feast days. But the vast majority of holy men and women live heroic lives...

Nothing takes God by surprise, not even cancer.

It’s like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week’s chemotherapy and you’re in a ward with people who are...

It will be an important step in our understanding of the genetic components of cancer and the genetic susceptibilities of people affected by cancer.

I love you.”People have concerns besides simply prolonging their lives. Surveys of patients with terminal illness find that their top priorities include, in addition to avoiding suffering, being with family, having the touch of others,...

Surviving cancer is cool, but surviving old age is cooler.

Bravery is a willing decision to do what must be done. Fear is a cancer that is cured only by doing what must be done, backed by an intelligent, open mind.

It’s funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity,

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.

That evening I sat across from Jeremy Bulloch and Jacob at the dinner table. I watched as Jeremy, who seemed to speak Jacob’s silent language fluently, drummed his fingers up and down on the edge...

He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu.

It’s not a good idea.

I have a list of teachers that have had cancer, thyroid problems, allergy problems.

Cancer doesn’t give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will.

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can’t think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

We ”need” cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

[Blacks] have twice the rates of prostate cancer death as Caucasian men, … For reasons we don’t know, it also starts at a younger age in African-American men.

You can see a person’s whole life in the cancer they get.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim...

As with everything we do in medicine, especially in cancer medicine, you always want to see what other opinions there may be or other studies to confirm these findings, … You also want to see...

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life...

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

As my nostrils filled with the stench of burnt hair and my friends scurried to clean up the mess, I thought, ‘If your hair catches on fire while you’re making a wish, does that mean...

Whenever I donate a hunting trip for the Children’s Leukemia Foundation, Ronald McDonald Cancer House, all these children’s charities, I offer the anti-hunters an opportunity: if you donate more to the children’s charity than the...