Steve Garvey Quotes

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.

I beat a brain tumor.

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.

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

... I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Suddenly I had to spend all my time getting well.

The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.

I didn't have chemo.

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 breast cancer. I caught it early.

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

The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.

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

I don't have cancer, I just have a tumour.

I land in New York, and next day, we go to the doctor. He looks at everything, and we had sent all our tests, and he says, 'You know, it is fourth stage, and you have 30% chance of survival.'

I had breast cancer.

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

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

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.

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.

We were led to a pediatric ophthalmologist. It's a hard date for me, April 14, 1998. The doctor came back from the examining room and told us she had tumors in both eyes.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.

I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'