Quotes about Cancer

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.

I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

When Nixon declared the war on cancer, he had no army. He had no tools. He had no anything, except good intentions.