Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.
Well, right now, technically, I have no breast cancer.
Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
Many patients with cancer are depressed, yet depression is not the cause of cancer.
For people who are afraid to talk about cancer, for people who are afraid to communicate with their loved ones about it, and for the people who want to pretend cancer doesn't exist, either delaying diagnosis or not getting regular checkups, the conse...
When they told me I had cancer - a very rare form called appendiceal cancer - I was shocked. But I went straight into battle mode. Every morning, I'd wake up and have an internal conversation with cancer. 'All right, dude,' I'd tell it, 'go ahead and...
I didn't believe when I was first told that I have cancer. I thought, 'How can a young person like me get cancer?' I thought it could never happen to me. It took me a while to realise that I was diagnosed with cancer.
But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.
Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward....
What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.
I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.
My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'
I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.
Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.
We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.
