It’s so important to encourage the use of suncream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sunbeds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.

Dana Reeve’s death highlights the fact that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women in the U.S., claiming 30,000 more lives annually than breast cancer. It is not unique that she...

The late Alan Gregg pointed out that human population growth within the ecosystem was closely analogous to the growth of malignant tumor cells within an organism: that man was acting like a cancer on the...

My grandmother passed away from cancer, so this is a great opportunity to honor her. You just don’t want to forget people.

She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she’d been told. They took half your stomach out and...

This is a drug that controls cancer with almost no side effects. So, for us in the world of oncology to have that is a huge breakthrough. It’s a great drug, a great new discovery.

This will be an important test in detecting recurrence of bladder cancer, … People who have been treated now require years of expensive follow-up. If that could be avoided by having one negative telomerase test,...

One day, when I thought I was alone, I prayed in church. While making this offering before the cross, a parishioner came up to me, put her arm around my shoulder and prayed, ‘Dear God,...

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

Cancer, he’d said near the end, is the great equalizer. It doesn’t care who you are or what kind of salary you make. It doesn’t give one damn if you are a good person or...

As J.R. I could get away with anything – bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of...

I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn’t do this to someone I hated.

An ounce of cancer prevention is worth a ton of cancer cure.

Please don’t preach at me—I feel bad enough already.

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.

All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver’s license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a...

You’re a mystery.

I don’t want fear or cancer to define me, but it’s always in the back of your mind.

Our strategy is to focus on women to try to prevent cervical cancer in the most cost effective way. We intend to seek licensure for a broad age range.

I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will...

Even though we couldn’t find an association with colorectal cancer, fruits and vegetables definitely protect for other important diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and potentially other cancers. These are some of the best...

Don’t tell me you’re one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It’s disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you...

She wished she had cancer instead. She’d trade Alzheimer’s for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With...

We need this because 230,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year,

For the population to increase and for cancer to decrease, that’s a major step. We are making progress. We just need to keep making progress by continuing to fund cancer research.

I feel like I’ve lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I had an idea of what was wrong with him. Blake did too, because we’ve talked about cancer before, and he knows what I do at my job.

They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock....

Top question of the dying: “What made me sick?