Jill Biden Quotes

I want to fight and win the war on cancer.

We could conquer cancer if we really wanted to.

I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

We want to keep creating the biggest impact we can in the cancer space by focuses on prevention, early detection, and psychosocial support.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite some gains made against it, is becoming even more prominent.

Who the hell is against breast cancer research?

We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it.

My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

I'm not sure anyone goes through a cancer scare unchanged. I know it changed me in so many ways. But I was fortunate to have had a rare cancer that's slow-growing and one that allowed me to skip the chemical cocktails that would have put me into early menopause.

You can manage cancer. You don't have to be degraded by humiliating treatments and protocols. And in some cases, you can be cured of cancer.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

I think that research is incredibly important and hopefully one day there will be a cure for cancer. They are making great strides.

It's hard to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer - people who get it don't live long enough.

I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.

I don't want 100 different cures of cancer. I want, you know, give me five. So if you had, you know, five medicines, you could do away with 90 percent of cancer. That's sort of my objective. I think we're going to do it.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women's cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically.