Victoria Gotti Quotes

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 was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

My mom was actually diagnosed with breast cancer when I was five.

It was very clear that I had breast cancer. From a man's perspective, I'm thinking, 'Why me?'

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .

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

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

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

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

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.'

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.

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

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

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.

I had breast cancer. I caught it early.

I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

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

I've never had a personal experience with cancer.