#cancer

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it. ↗

— Bernard Levin

#begin #cancers #efforts #impressive #naturally

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#bigger #cancer #cell #country #cure

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

— Laura Linney

#change #everyone #own #people #point

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #much #show #than #tv

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #death #even #evolved #grandmother

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#cancer #either #equalizer #everyone #great

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' ↗

— Andrew Lo

#died #economist #felt #helpless #i

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one. ↗

— Charlotte Ross

#breast cancer #cancer #future #go #how

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#bother #cancer #courageous #defeated #did

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#always #appear #because #cancer #come