We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we’re afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency. – Nancy Gibbs
Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite. – Kris Carr
I had a cancer scare in the early ’90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it. – Kiki Dee
My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
It’s one thing to recognize that the gap between the rich and everybody else is growing like a cancer; it’s another thing to come up with useful solutions. – Molly Ivins
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on. – Khaled Hosseini
If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain – if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I’d want that. – John Key
I’ve just made a cancer drama, called ‘Now Is Good,’ directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it’s about a girl dying of leukemia, although it’s not as depressing as it sounds. – Kaya Scodelario
Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia. – Kurt Vonnegut
If you’re unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn’t mean your condition can’t be improved. – Len Dawson
I’m Cancer and Gemini cusp, so I read both and pick the one I like best. I read horoscopes but claim not to believe any of it. – Joe Dempsie
My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists. – John Cameron
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it’s like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. – Mel Gibson
Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. – Maya Angelou
Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on. – Kris Carr
Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized. – John Cameron
I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you’ve ever heard. – Kathy Griffin
Go to the doctor, get a checkup, and get Pap smears regularly. Cervical cancer is very preventable, and if you catch it early, there are tons of ways to treat it as well. – Mandy Moore
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it. – John Dean
The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don’t cause cancer. – Leonard Mlodinow
I haven’t talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don’t really want to define myself that way. – Kathy Bates
While Planned Parenthood provides abortions at some of their clinics, it also provides healthcare services for poor women, including checkups, mammograms, cervical cancer screenings and contraceptives. – Juan Williams