Cancer Victim Quotes:

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

- Dave Pelzer

source: "I was never about boo hoo hoo". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2008.

topic: Cancer, Survivor, Mindset, Inspirational Cancer, Cancer Victim

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Cancer, Heart, Disease, Breast Cancer, Cancer Awareness

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.

- Joel Siegel

topic: Cancer, Mean, Sweat, Cab Drivers, Sweat The Small Stuff

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cancer, Fate, Survival, Breast Cancer, Cancer Victim

We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles?

- Danah Zohar

topic: Running, Children, Cancer, Transcending, Handicapped

...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.

- Rose Bird

topic: Cancer, Dark, Agency, Medical Treatment, Unorthodox

My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.

- Hardin B. Jones

topic: Cancer, Four, Study, Cancer Victim

Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.

- Erland Josephson

topic: Cancer, Dark, Doctors, Cancer Victim

We must work to ensure that the Nevada Cancer Institute continues to receive the dollars necessary to make it a vibrant source of research and clinical assistance for cancer victims throughout the state of Nevada and the nation.

- Jon Porter

topic: Cancer, Dollars, Research, Cancer Victim, Nevada