Cancer

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.

The late Christopher Hitchens had the professional contrarian's fixation on attacking sacred cows, and rather soon after his cancer diagnosis, he became one himself.

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.

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.

Having cancer is one thing, looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

I am really proud of what I have done for cancer awareness, but do I feel like Bono? No.

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.

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.

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.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

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.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

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.'

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

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.

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

It's been said that mistletoe extract enhances immune function, which increases the production of the immune cells. When administered as a form of therapy for cancer, the extracts are given by injection under the skin, into a vein or directly into a tumor.

If I can get people to accept that a DNA test is nothing to be intimidated about, then we can do tests that determine how well you metabolise certain drugs and test for breast cancer.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

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.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

I think governments are the cancer of civilization.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

If we stop exploring space, we're going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.

I have acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of cancer. The typical prognosis is 3-6 months to live, but I would like to stress that is for a patient who is not receiving treatment.

I'm fighting cancer and I refuse to give up.

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.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'

We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.

When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

Ethno-sectarian violence is a particular concern in Iraq, as it is a cancer that continues to spread if left unchecked.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.

There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.

When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.

People used to say everyone knows someone who's had breast cancer. In the past few weeks, I've learned something else: Everyone has someone close to them who has had breast cancer.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

I used to get stressed out, but my cancer has put everything into perspective.

I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, 'What a strange turn of events.'

I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.

You know what the doctors call me? 'The Cancer Warrior.'

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.

Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of the cockroach and seeing how it ticks. I've opened up my own pathology center.

I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.

I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

Cancer essentially lives in us and becomes activated at some point, and then cells begin to psychotically divide. Initially, the cancer cell looks like other cells and the body invites it in.

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.

What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!

Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.

I've gone to skin doctors and they'll say to you, 'We should remove this because it's pre-cancerous,' and I'll say, 'Explain pre-cancerous to me.' I'll listen for about twenty minutes and I'll say excuse me, 'Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you're saying it could turn into cancer but it's not cancer?'

People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

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

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts.

Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.

The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

Maybe I should mention it: I was not from the beginning mainly interested in papilloma virus, I was mainly interested in infectious agents in human cancer. So papilloma viruses came up as the most likely candidate from my viewpoint.

In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.

Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.

The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.

My father passed from cancer in 2000, his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasn't going to be all of me.

I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

I questioned her further, and eventually got to talk to her doctor. And her doctor sort of shook his head and he said, 'I have examined her for throat cancer at least 15 times in the past few years.

The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.

I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.

You don't treat cancer - you fight it.

The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy, I haven't had to have a mastectomy.

I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.

I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.

If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.

Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

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.

Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.

You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

Cancer is caused by what you do for many, many years, not what you do for a few weeks or months.

Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.

If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent.

Scores of studies support the power of certain natural foods to prevent cancer.

We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it.

In some cases radiation reduces the incidence of cancer.

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.

My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.

E-mails are the cancer of modern business.

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.

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.

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

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.

If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.

I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

I haven't talked much about being an ovarian cancer survivor because I don't really want to define myself that way.

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease, it matters no less for depression.

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.

Cancer does not discriminate.

Cancer is a growth hormone for empathy, and empathy makes us useful to each other in ways we were not, could not have been, before.

It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

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.

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

Cancer is very chaotic.

Eventually cancer becomes just another annoying thing that you deal with, you know, like cellulite.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

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.

Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.

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 cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

I eat like a horse, sometimes I think I must have cancer.

'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.