Joel Siegel Quotes

The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

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.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation.

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

Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.

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

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

Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking ass in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.

I had a ringside seat to cancer. As have most people.

I had prostate cancer. It was rather painful and, in many ways, life-changing.

In my experience with cancer, I was one of the lucky ones: diagnosed and treated by a qualified team of professionals as well as benefiting from the advancements in cancer research.

A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.

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

I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.