Dave deBronkart Quotes

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

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 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.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

I had breast cancer.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.

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

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

I beat a brain tumor.

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

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

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.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

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

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

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

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.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.