Jodi Rell Quotes

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

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

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

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

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

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

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

My mom was diagnosed at the age of 46 with ovarian cancer.

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

I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.

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

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

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.'

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

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.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

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

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

Cancer does not discriminate.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.