Taboo Quotes

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

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

Being diagnosed with cancer is terrifying.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

We all know someone who has been affected by cancer.

Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.

They didn't tell me what type of cancer I had. They didn't tell me what stage I was in. They just told me, 'Mr Gomez, you have cancer.' My life flashed before my eyes. I thought about my kids, I thought about my wife. Nothing prepares you for the shock of someone telling you you have that horrible disease.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

Cancer is tough. Even saying it, it's a tough word to say.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

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

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.

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.

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

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

I've never had a personal experience with cancer.

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