Dennis Franz Quotes

In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.

Athletes vs Cancer is a foundation that I started in 2008 after I lost my mom to cancer in 2007, and our goal is early detection, preventative screening and just really spreading knowledge about the cancer disease.

You don't treat cancer - you fight it.

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.

I know so many people who have battled breast cancer and they didn't all make it.

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

My family has had a lot of trouble with cancer in particular. There are a lot of great causes out there but for me to pick one I would say anything that is cancer related.

In my small, coastal New England town, an hour outside New York, I know many people who have dealt with cancer. I can reel off the names of at least 15 women I know, all in their 40s.

I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.

As a mother and someone who has lost so many family members to cancer, it is important to me to bring awareness to such important causes.

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

Cancer affects everyone, and it's up to all of us to support the important research that can one day make a much sought-after cure a reality.

I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to be sure that people understand that cancer is a disease for everybody - not only in France, in Europe, in Asia, it is all over the world. We must fight together, we must make something to fight the cancer, we must Livestrong.

We talk about cancer as a noun, as if it's a one time event: 'I've got cancer.'

Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

I joined forces with the American Cancer Society in 2010 as a spokesperson for the N.F.L.'s 'A Crucial Catch' campaign, which benefits the American Cancer Society. This was important to me because I lost my mother to breast cancer, and I have always felt a strong commitment to doing all I can to fight this disease.

I hope I can become a voice for all cancers and all patients.