#cancer

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

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#decided #done #everything #far #get

I recently formed a foundation to raise awareness for prostate cancer. I feel it's very necessary that men be more aware about prostate cancer and their health in general. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#aware #awareness #cancer #feel #formed

Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#active #aids #awareness #because #breast cancer

I am leaving because I have to fight simultaneously a potential recurrence of cancer the Democratic leadership, a health care bill that's going to destroy this country, my opposition to it and a belief that my party has become what it became - what it campaigned against. ↗

— Eric Massa

#am #became #because #become #belief

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer? ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#challenge #doctor #get #heard #i