#cancer

CELL Now look objectively. You have to admit the cancer cell is beautiful. If it were a flower, you'd say, How pretty, with its mauve centre and pink petals of if a cover for a pulpy thirties sci-fi magazine. How striking: as an alien, a success, all purple eye and jelly tentacles and spines, or are they gills, creeping around on granular Martian dirt red as the inside of the body, while its tender walls expand and burst, its spores scatter elsewhere, take root, like money, drifting like a fiction or miasma in and out of people's brains, digging themselves industriously in. The lab technician says, It has forgotten how to die. But why remember? All it wants is more amnesia. More life, and more abundantly. to take more. to eat more. To replicate itself. To keep on doing those things forever. Such desires are not unknown. Look in the mirror. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#poetry #beauty

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#cancers #chronic #dad #ended #had

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#deal #scary #scary thing #seriously #thing

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#both #cancer #dad #died #gene

I've always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#anything #been #cancer #disease #had

If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved. ↗

— Len Dawson

#catch #condition #essentially #improved #incurable

I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people. ↗

— Karen Black

#better #cancer #career #comes #done

Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, brain and spinal cord disorders, diabetes, cancer, at least 58 diseases could potentially be cured through stem cell research, diseases that touch every family in America and in the world. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#america #brain #cancer #cell #cell research

If our society continues to support basic research on how living organisms function, it is likely that my great grandchildren will be spared the agony of losing family members to most types of cancer. ↗

— Paul D. Boyer

#basic #basic research #cancer #continues #family

Starbucks is spreading like a cancer. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#like #spreading #starbucks