Terminal Cancer Quotes:

You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.

- Tom McCall

topic: Cancer, Stress, Love Life, Terminal Cancer

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

- Tom McCall

topic: Love Life, Oregon, Activist, Terminal Cancer

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

- Arabella Weir

topic: Mother, Father, Cancer, Surrogates, Stepmothers

It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive.

- Bryan Cranston

source: ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

topic: Teacher, Cancer, School, Methamphetamine, Walter White

If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they could perform right now that might save their lives. ... They have a 90 percent chance of surviving the operation — if you tell them that, they respond one way. If you tell them ... that they have a 10 percent chance of being killed by the operation, they are about three times less likely to have the operation.

- Michael Lewis

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Cancer, Doctors, Office, Terminal, Terminal Cancer

To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System.

- Luther L. Bohanon

topic: Cancer, Dark, Age, Cancer Patients, Terminal Cancer

...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame.

- Luther L. Bohanon

topic: Cancer, Dark, Suffering, Terminal Cancer

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

- Bill de Blasio

source: "Bill De Blasio Reveals His Father Committed Suicide During Fight With Terminal Cancer" By Michael McLaughlin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2013.

topic: Father, Cancer, Media, Terminal, Private Parts

Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify.

- Barry Lynes

topic: Cancer, Fda, Doctors, Terminal Cancer

Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.

- William Styron

source: William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

topic: Depression, Cancer, Healing, Reproof, Terminal Cancer

Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

- William S. Burroughs

source: William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

topic: Pain, Cancer, Laughing, Terminal, Excruciating Pain