Jamie Dimon Quotes

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Cancer is just one little word but, when you hear it, it turns your whole life upside down.

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

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

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

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.

The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

I didn't believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, 'How can a young person like me get cancer?' I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer.

We all live with cancer, whether it is present in ourselves or affects someone we love.

I knew I heard the doctor correctly. I didn't think he said something else, I didn't think for a second, 'Well maybe he didn't say it.' No, I knew I heard him! But I still couldn't comprehend... in my mind... in my soul... he just said, 'cancer.'

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

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

People grow; people grow apart, and cancer... I've had a very in-depth and personal experience with cancer, and it really causes a perspective shift.

In 2003, I had testicular cancer, and I didn't tell anyone about it - maybe five people. I had a fairly significant surgery. I was weak, slumped over. I told people at work I'd been in an accident.

My life got turned upside down when I found out I had cancer.

It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it all kind of comes home.

When I got to know about my cancer, I was at the rock bottom of my life, and my work suffered for it.

I don't want to be brain tumor girl. I don't want this to be my thing.

Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.