I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.
Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.
You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.
...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)
What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.
Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.
One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.
Cancer treatment is very expensive, and the process is painful and long. This is something that we have to collectively think about, on how to make it affordable.
Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won't seem to go away.
We could conquer cancer if we really wanted to.
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.
I come from amazing DNA, I watched my mom fight and win against breast cancer.
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.
I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.
Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.
Cancer is a very real thing. it takes a lot of lives every year. It's something we can always pursue and try to find a cure, and try to raise money.
I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.
Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
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.
I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
