quotations about cancer
Cancer ... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.
PHILIP K. DICK
Radio Free Albemuth
Cancer does not have a face until it's yours or someone you know.
ANTHONY DEL MONTE
We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
GILBERT ADAIR
"Under the Sign of Cancer", Myths and Memories
People wonder why cancer exists when it is just a clever method to teach people lessons about love and loss. It borrows time or steals it depending on the needs of Heaven. It is a vehicle to get us where we need to be. It calls us home because something needs us there.
KATE & JACK MCAFGHAN
Return from Rainbow Bridge
We can have hope even while maintaining a negative--or sometimes simply realistic--attitude. For instance, if you're dying of cancer, you can still hope for pain relief. If you have a difficult-to-treat cancer, you can still hope for new treatments.
LORI HOPE
Help Me Live
Cancer is like a rogue wave, appearing unexpectedly on the horizon and then crashing in with full force over patient, family, and friends, shaking everything up for a while.
CATHERINE PHILLIPS
Calm Your Mind, Warm Your Heart
The cancer-is-war metaphor does not seem to allow space for the idea that in actual war, some soldiers die heroically for the larger good, no matter which side wins. War is death. In the cancer war, if you die, you've lost and cancer has won. The dead are responsible not just for getting cancer, but also for failing to defeat it.
ALANNA MITCHELL
Malignant Metaphor: Confronting Cancer Myths