Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. – Arlen Specter
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’ – Bernie Siegel
Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones. – Andrew Lo
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I’m born under the sign of Cancer – the sign of the crab – so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such – although not the wide-open and deep seas. – Anjelica Huston
It seems everybody has been somehow affected by cancer, either through a relative or a close friend or somewhere, and they know how devastating cancer can be. And they see me, and I refuse to let it affect how I live and what I do. – Craig Sager
There’s no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don’t meet people who want to get Alzheimer’s disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. – Aubrey de Grey
The thing with cancer is that it’s usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start. – Amy Hoggart
Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug is combined with existing therapies. – Alex Berenson
It’s not at all good when your cancer is ‘palpable’ from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn’t even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. – Christopher Hitchens
Maybe it’s our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer. – Chuck Palahniuk
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I’ve ever done. – Bruce McCulloch
If you’ve ever had a brush with cancer, you’re always thinking a pain might be something serious. – Ann Jillian
The public needs to know – they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes. – Barry Manilow
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, ‘What can I do?’ – Andrew Lo
I’m a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer. – Brenda Song
Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It’s a disease that already takes so much. – Amy Robach
Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. – Christopher Hitchens
The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer… I don’t know why that started… The way I sing, probably. – Bob Seger
I’m sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer. – Marcia Wallace