Family Cancer Quotes

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.

Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family.

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

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

Prostate cancer has taken a lot from me. First it took my grandfather and then my dad.

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.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

I am the third generation of women in my family to be struck with a gynecologic cancer. Because of this legacy, we have been genetically tested.