Margo MacDonald Quotes

In 1962 I was diagnosed with this incurable disease.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.

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 have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

As a practicing neurologist, I can tell you first hand that working with Parkinson's patients offers clinical challenges. But from an emotional perspective, this disease can border on overwhelming.

I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation.

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

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?

My father had Parkinson's, though he actually died following a bicycle accident.

I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, 'Gosh it's terrible about Stephen, isn't it?' They told me that he had been in St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease - motor neurone disease.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

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

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passive and kind of accept whatever is offered you, or to be active and to learn about your disease, and understand your options, and be an active partner with your doctor. That's the course I took with all three of my cancers.

I'm happy to say that I am in remission. That R word is something critically important to cancer patients, especially in a disease like myeloma. But I never lose sight of the fact that there is another R word called relapse.