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,...

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

the world wasn’t made for us, we were made for the world

Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in.

My mother was very ill with terminal cancer she was given a few weeks to live, but she started speaking the word praying healing scriptures and it didn’t happen overnight, but in time she got...

He is in hospital and very sick with cancer, so we have to go to him.

Fear is the cancer

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn’t drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its...

We can look at our tattoos from cancer treatment as awful reminders of a ghastly time in our lives, or we can use them as reminders of what God brought us through.

I think there’s a good chance that we’d increase the cancer rates as a result of this stuff blowing out of here.

My father was a doctor,’ she says, ‘a very kind man. He died in the early ’70s, relatively young.’ She taps the cigarette packet on the table. ‘Of lung cancer.”Oh.”But the thing about that is,’...

Cancer is a bitch that needs to get the crap smacked out of it. I intend to stand on the front lines with a big-ass bat.

We wanted treatment for our mother, and there’s so much expense involved when you get cancer, from the medicines to having to buy wigs when they lose their hair.

I think it’s very much a distraction to the ball club, and that is a cancer, you just get done playing the best team in baseball, the team has been playing very well, despite everything...

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.

It is also able to make prostate cancer cells undergo apoptosis — programmed cell death — and the mechanism for that, we don’t know,

But it’s not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

As an industry, you can live with a low-grade fever, but you cannot live with a cancer — and that’s the level that we’re currently at.

Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn’t important.

This isn’t just about breast cancer. It’s about all types of cancer. Everybody’s out there for one goal … to help raise money to find a cure.

Cancer… the process of creation gone wild, I thought.

Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, ‘Ah yes, but...

Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I’m right. “Migratory cancer cells” are amoebic formations. They are produced from disintegrating tissue and thus demonstrate the law of...

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

Heaven is freakin’ not ready for me!” – seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

We have thousands of patients and family members who are dealing with dual devastation, cancer and the hurricane.

The cancer field has led the way in the most remarkable way.

I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However,...

I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you’ve bought in your life, and you...

She’d never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she’d had...

Everybody wants to talk about cancer stem cells now. From funding agencies to institutions to scientists, people are recognizing that this is probably the game to be in.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

Part of me was afraid that if I raised my fist to the sky and demanded an answer now, I would hear a thundering and calloused, ‘Because I said so,” from God in heaven. And...

Cancer can touch you, but not your soul; neither your thoughts, nor your heart.

The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.

And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?

Everybody keeps talking about ‘fighting’ the cancer,” he said, “everybody keeps telling me to fight for my life, to fight the disease, and how their uncle won the battle against cancer and their cousin won...

It’s a scary word, ‘cancer.’

Everest attempt at sixty-two, three weeks after undergoing surgery for kidney cancer, marathon des Sables six months after it was amputated fingers and toes, be measured by the diagonal of Fools four weeks after ablation...

Many patients with cancer are depressed, yet depression is not the cause of cancer.

Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we’re trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and...

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period....

Tobin,” Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn’t a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally – I mean, you don’t want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, “Guy walks into...

He stated his wife was having chemo treatments for breast cancer. She wasn’t around the house a lot and he was ‘lonely’, was the word he used.

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Because that’s what unfaithfulness is, isn’t it? A cancer that’s always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship.