Geraldine Brooks Quotes

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

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

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

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

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

Being diagnosed with cancer is terrifying.

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

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

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

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

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control 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.

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

Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that.

Cancer really stinks.

After being diagnosed with cancer, one is in a lot of fear and anxiety about the anticipated pain and the painful treatment.

My life got turned upside down when I found out I had cancer.

When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

I have people that have died from cancer and friends that are dealing with cancer.

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

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.