#cancer

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#contains #even #permanent #temptation

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#detection #especially #even #good #inside

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#am #become #cancer #died #father

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

— Elizabeth Hurley

#cancer #i #know #make #many

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#cancer #destroy #fate #learn #left

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying. ↗

— Michael Landon

#cancer #die #going #i #trying

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