Jon Lester Quotes

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

Being diagnosed with cancer is terrifying.

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

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

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

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say.

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

When the headache persisted, I checked myself into an emergency room. When the doctor used the term 'brain tumour', I feared the worst. My whole world shrank around me.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

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

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.

My life got turned upside down when I found out I had cancer.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

When they told me I had cancer, I thought I was going to die.

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

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

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.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.