Sharon Jones Quotes

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.

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

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.

'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.

I had tumors on both ovaries, and the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes and surrounding tissues.

Ever since my colorectal cancer in 1999, I have been followed by the N.I.H. That was very lucky for me because they detected my pancreatic cancer at a very early stage.

We all know that the earlier cancer is detected the more successful treatment will be, and my cancer had spread to my ribs and that was a very fast-growing cancer.

You can't cure your own cancer, obviously, especially if it's late stage.

After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant reading scientific papers. Had I not used the stolen material provided by Sci-Hub, it would have cost me thousands.

I am fighting kidney cancer. And I'm just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that was going to probably save my life.

Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

I lost my aunt to breast cancer.

I feel like everyone at some point has been affected by cancer, whether it's family or a friend.

My nan's skin cancer was on her nose and had to have it removed a few times.

In my experience with cancer, I was one of the lucky ones: diagnosed and treated by a qualified team of professionals as well as benefiting from the advancements in cancer research.

More than 90% of cancers are curable at stage one - look for them, look for them, look for them.

A big reason I ultimately decided to run was because of my family's experience when my mom was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer and did not have health insurance at the time.

When I was young, my dad had skin cancer, which was awful.

In Sept of 2013 I was diagnosed as having an aggressive form of stage 2 endometrial cancer. I underwent a rigorous treatment program that included a radical hysterectomy followed with chemo and radiation therapy.

Growing up, cancer was one of those things that I heard other people talk about. The word scared me, but I always thought, 'Thank goodness I don't have to worry about that.' Then, in 1998, I lost my father to cancer.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)