My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
Blight is like a cancer. This is one of those all-or-nothing things.
From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another.
My - both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.
I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.
Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
Men are at risk for breast cancer as well. That's absolutely true.
If only there was a vaccine to protect against breast cancer, we'd be lining up - wouldn't we?
I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'
My mother has battled breast cancer three times.
My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.
When my sister was diagnosed with cancer in 1989, her doctor told her that the cancer had probably been in her system for 10 years. By the time cancer's diagnosed, it's usually been around for quite a while.
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
After the pancreatic cancer, at first I went to N.I.H. every three months, then every four months, then every six months.
If a black doctor discovers a cure for cancer, ain't no hospital going to lock him out.
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.
The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.
Two of my favourite books are Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' and 'Tropic of Capricorn.'