Cancer quotes
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"What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling."
"Un-forgiveness is like cancer; it eats you from the inside out."
"My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it."
