Robin Roberts Quotes

In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

We have all learned that addiction and mental illnesses are illnesses, and I think a lot of people overlook that it is a chemical imbalance; it's like cancer, a sickness, and people need to see it as that.

Recovering in a Calcutta, India hospital. I think I'm more difficult than critical.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

When I got really sick and needed a stem cell transplant, I was fortunate to have a twin sister as the donor.

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

It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant.

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.

The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me together so I could do the show.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus in February 2012, and finding that out really messed me up.

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.

My life got turned upside down when I found out I had cancer.

My mother is a two-time cancer survivor.

I met my future husband Andy fighting for trans equality, and we fell in love. A couple of months after we started dating, Andy was diagnosed with cancer, and despite getting a clean bill of health several months later, eventually his cancer came back, and it was terminal.

I've overcome tuberculosis and my life was at risk.

In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'

A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

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

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.