Suzanne Somers Quotes

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.

I'm not sure anyone goes through a cancer scare unchanged. I know it changed me in so many ways. But I was fortunate to have had a rare cancer that's slow-growing and one that allowed me to skip the chemical cocktails that would have put me into early menopause.

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

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

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

Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.

Cancer is just one little word but, when you hear it, it turns your whole life upside down.

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

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'

I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.

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

When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

When you receive a cancer diagnosis, you're more vulnerable than at any other time in your life. I've personally had the experience twice. My only hope for survival was alternatives. But that was my decision, what I thought was best for me.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

I don't think I'll ever feel like I'm cancer-free.

Anybody who has cancer, they take it one day at a time.

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

When I got to know about my cancer, I was at the rock bottom of my life, and my work suffered for it.