Cancer Fear Quotes

My life, like most people's, has been negatively affected by cancer, and the thought of my young children living in an age where this is no longer humanity's No. 1 health fear was simply overpowering.

There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.

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

The cancer I had is called clear cell carcinoma, and it can show up anywhere at any time. There's always that little fear in the back of my head, it could show up in my colon, my stomach, my brain. I do worry about that.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'

I always used to say to myself, I'm going to die of lung cancer. That's the choice I'm making.

Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.

You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.

The language surrounding cancer is not language I'm particularly comfortable with.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like. I followed this wish of being a fiction writer.

I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.

We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.

Cervical cancer doesn't discriminate by how much money you have. The disease affects so many - it's frightening.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere now.