Cancer Trauma Quotes

The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.

Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while... But now I've reached a point where I don't think about cancer nonstop anymore, and sometimes I worry about that - I'm going to forget what I went through; I'm going to forget how horrible it was.

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

If you've ever had a brush with cancer, you're always thinking a pain might be something serious.

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

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I would never ever joke, kid, or use cancer as an excuse.