Cancer Hope Quotes

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 hit me. But I'm going to hit you back even harder.'

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out... but he's back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don't quit.

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.

I know my children will never have to say, 'Mom died of ovarian cancer.'

It seems everybody has been somehow affected by cancer, either through a relative or a close friend or somewhere, and they know how devastating cancer can be. And they see me, and I refuse to let it affect how I live and what I do.

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

I am happy to join AutoNation in the fight against cancer. This disease hits close to home for me with the loss of my mom in 2009. Raising awareness and finding a cure is really important to me.

I'm fighting not only for myself and for my family, but I feel I am fighting for everybody who has cancer.

I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.

I wanted to create a movement and a safe space for people to come and find their 'cancer home.'

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.