Peri Gilpin Quotes

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

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

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

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

Upon hearing the results of her breast examination, the First Lady said - "I guess it's my turn."

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

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

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

IVF became the only way for us to have children after I was treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma 10 years ago with fertility-destroying chemotherapy. And while the cancer treatment was predictably punishing for me, I was struck by the anguish of the IVF process and in particularly the failed cycle.

I lost my aunt to breast cancer.

My nan's skin cancer was on her nose and had to have it removed a few times.

We will hold Planned Parenthood accountable for knowingly endangering their patients by providing illegal abortions at a facility that was not properly licensed nor prepared to handle an emergency.

I don't have cancer, I just have a tumour.

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

With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.

In Sept of 2013 I was diagnosed as having an aggressive form of stage 2 endometrial cancer. I underwent a rigorous treatment program that included a radical hysterectomy followed with chemo and radiation therapy.

Growing up, cancer was one of those things that I heard other people talk about. The word scared me, but I always thought, 'Thank goodness I don't have to worry about that.' Then, in 1998, I lost my father to cancer.

I think it's important for women to have a means to get health care. I think it's important that women have a place to go to get Pap smears and cancer screenings. And it shouldn't be considered extra. It shouldn't be considered something that can be "cut." It shouldn't be something that's in danger of going away. The idea that we're even thinking about cutting that off because somebody else isn't enjoying it themselves or somebody has extreme opinions about it is worrisome to me.

I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.

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

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.