309 quotes found
“Ill give you my strength if I can have your remission.”
“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 they are the wors...”
“work. play. passion.”
“It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, act...”
“It was Disney World fused with Cancerland.”
“The best way to deal with 'Change' is to lead it!”
“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 fo...”
“Apple and apricot seeds contain a vitamin called B12, which I found to be illegal to sell in pharmacies. Now, this is very interesting. You can buy all kind of vitamins in pharmacies, but not B12. ...”
“For all malignant cancers, both fish eaters and vegetarians and vegans combined had significantly lower mortality than regular meat eaters [HR: 0.76 (95% CI: 0.63, 0.91) and HR: 0.82 (95% CI: 0.72,...”
“For specific causes of death, compared with regular meat eaters, low meat eaters had ~3045% lower mortality from pancreatic cancer, respiratory disease, and all other causes of death, fish eaters h...”
“There is general agreement that red meat consumption increases the risk of colon or colorectal cancer. This was the only food association with cancer that was labeled convincing in the recent repor...”
“Although protein deficiency is widespread in poverty-stricken communities and in some nonindustrialized countries, most people in industrialized countries face the opposite problemprotein excess. T...”
“I am reminded of an image...that living with a terminal disease is like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss. But that living without disease is also like walking on a tightrope over...”
“He put the x-ray up on the light screen: The tumor was a large white circle in the middle of the picture. It looked like a headlight coming straight at me, full-speed ahead.”
“The various worms eat one's body after its death; conversely, cancer cells eat one's body, when it breathes, since the failure of medical research.”
“No hair? Dont care!!”
“Without hair, A queen is still a queen.”
“But that's the thing about cancer. They call it the fight, as if the stronger ones win and the weaker ones lose, but that's not what cancer is at all. Cancer isn't one of the players in the game. C...”
“The worst part about cancer isn't what it does to you, but what it does to the people you love.”
“I'm not one of those people who think that cancer is some kind of jousting match. People live or die based on good medicine, good luck, and the grace of God. The people that die from it did not fai...”
