Dean Ornish Quotes

We know that childhood and adolescence are the most crucial times for environmental stimuli to affect breast cancer risk, but changes made during adulthood and even after diagnosis still have the potential to create positive changes in the body.

Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the only factor. Lifestyle choices may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer, but that knowledge is an opportunity to empower ourselves, not to blame.

I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people's hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.

I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

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.

Most breast cancer-related deaths can be prevented through simple and painless preventive measures. A late diagnosis can result in more serious, long-term consequences.

I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.

With breast cancer, it's all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.

I started realizing I could be an example for women to not just be aware of breast cancer but to act on it, to make an appointment, to give themselves an exam.

I have talked to women who do yoga, who are vegan, who have never smoked and/or never drank a day in their life, but they have Stage IV breast cancer. So you do what you can to be as healthy as you can if you know you're high-risk because yes, all those things can factor into that. But sometimes it's just a fluke.

I unfortunately tested positive for Lynch Syndrome, so I have been checked at least annually and sometimes twice a year.

I have four things to be concerned about: prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and breast cancer. The rest of my life I have to be very much aware and conscious and do all of the early detection.

Society does not seem prepared to accept the sacrifices required for an effective prevention of cancer.

I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.

Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.