Cynthia Nixon Quotes

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

I had breast cancer.

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

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.

In mid-July 2007, after a routine mammogram, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. As cancer diagnoses go, mine wasn't particularly scary. The affected area was small, and the surgeon seemed to think that a lumpectomy followed by radiation would eradicate the cancerous tissue.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

Until you expose the cancer, you can't fix it.

I beat a brain tumor.

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

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

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

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

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

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

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

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.