Quotes about Cancer

I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

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.

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.

My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

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.

So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

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.