#cancer

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable. ↗

— Judy Collins

#actually #ago #cancer #frightened #i

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram. ↗

— Larry Craig

#been #better #breast cancer #cancer #deaths

You cannot conceive of the depths of my sorrow, Campbell Maria Cooper." Alicia brought her fist to her mouth and her other hand to the rail of the bed and took a deep breath before she continued. "I will never be the same when you are gone. Things for me will be dim and gray and flat. But there is one thing that will keep me going, Campbell, and that is the belief in my connection to you. This thing. This crazy enmeshed love feeling that I have is real. Like this cup is real. Or this phone is real. And it will not just go away when you do. Okay? Wherever you are going, you will be connected to me by this thing, and you will never, ever be alone, okay? I want you to know that. ↗

— Wendy Wunder

#death #death-and-dying #death

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#down #line #straight #straight line #up

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#continues #kind #make

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit. ↗

— Renae Jones

#cancer #circumstances #death #dying #faith

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#being #called #came #cancer #catch

It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#basketball #cancer #curing #like #watching

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#bore #cancer #illness #like #other

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#aids #cancer #cured #disease #dreaded