#cancer

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK. ↗

— Koo Stark

#am #america #breast cancer #cancer #cent

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#dreaming #future #healthy #i #keep

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#far #go #had #i #probably

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#child #i #poster #poster child #want

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#having #sense #shakes #shoulders #takes

It is sad that most women don’t talk. When you don’t speak up and talk about your experience, how will others know that one can survive breast cancer? ↗

— Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu

#experience

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of. ↗

— John Green

#death #illness #death

If my love for cats were hydrogen, there’d be enough of it to give you skin cancer if you didn’t wear suntan lotion. The only sad part for me about getting a cat from the pound is that I can only choose one. If I could, I’d take home all of them. Actually, my view is why take them home? Why not just move in to an animal shelter? But my future wife wouldn’t go for that. Though I’m pretty sure she could move into a shoe store no problem. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cats #hydrogen #pound #sun #suntan-lotion

once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39) ↗

— Barbara Blatner

#colon-cancer #death #death-and-dying #death-and-sickness #death-at-home

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to relationships, businesses, and even nations. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#cancer #entitlement #gratitude #nations #relationships