Susan McBride Quotes

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.

What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.

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

I've had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O'Connor told me, 'Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you'll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.'

So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

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.

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

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

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

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.

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

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