"I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer."
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"Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control."
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"Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer."
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"My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity."
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"I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality."
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"There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be.""
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"We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation."
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"With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses."
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"I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift."
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"My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations."
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"... tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But to my knowledge, no one has ever died of a blow job."
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"In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty."
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"Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change."
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"I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer."
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"You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get."
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"Let me get a sip of water here... you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day."
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"The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time."
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"If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer."
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"The cancer of time is eating us away"
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"I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure."
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