J. K. Rowling Quotes

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.

This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.

I was diagnosed with the illness right before the 1995 World Cup.

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

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

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

Often people expect I have some touching personal story about kidney disease, but it's actually the mathematics that led me to it.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

Cancer does not discriminate.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

I never had a conscious fear of death, but I did have a conscious fear of sickness. By the time I completed medical school, that fear was gone.

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

The Ebola epidemic is the worst health emergency there has been in modern times.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

Cancer is something that can happen to anyone, like a sportsperson who is eating right and doing his bit correctly. Cancer really takes your life away.

Cancer is a very real thing. it takes a lot of lives every year. It's something we can always pursue and try to find a cure, and try to raise money.