James Randi Quotes

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

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

Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

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.'

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

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.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

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.

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

My doctor suggested doing some blood tests and immediately discovered that my white blood cell count was low. So then I went through many more tests including bone marrow biopsies until they figured out that I had neutropenia.

Cancer is a cruel killer. It creeps up on us when we aren't expecting it. But cake is not cancer. A doughnut does not creep up on you.

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

More than 90% of cancers are curable at stage one - look for them, look for them, look for them.

When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

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

One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.

Cancer really stinks.

After a performance at Hosadurga, I was struggling with severe gastroenteritis, for which I took multiple injections to ease the pain. But when it wouldn't abate, I got hospitalized, and that is when the heart issues were found out.