Abraham Lincoln Quotes

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

The president said that this is not removing a mole. You know, removing a mole, that's an outpatient sort of an operation. This was removing a cancer, removing a cancer takes more time.

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

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.

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.

In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

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.

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

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

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

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

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can.

I recommend a little dose of cancer to anyone.

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.

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

I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

I beat a brain tumor.

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

Cancer is very chaotic.