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“It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, actually dying, there and then and doing their best to come to terms with it. When the week's up, you go home and you see your family and your friends and everything's normal and familiar. It's too much. You think - one world can't possibly hold both these lives and you feel like you're going to go crazy when you realise the world is that big and it can fill with the most terrible things whenever it wants to.”
― Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts

“Why does chemo always have side effects like sickness and hair loss?
Why not 'invisibility' or 'spontaneous orgasms'?”
― Lawrence Wray

“Well, at least you'll get some down time to heal up before the chemo. Of course, that sounds kind of like in The Princess Bride when they heal Westley up before they torture him.”
― Abigail Barnette, The Girlfriend

“Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease.”
― Nancy S. Mure, EAT! Empower Adjust Triumph!

“An unhealthy life is destined to end with an unhealthy death.”
― Nancy S. Mure, EAT! Empower. Adjust. Triumph!: Lose Ridiculous Weight, Succeed On Any Diet Plan, Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 Empowering Steps!

“They say the Lord never gives us more than we can bear. This is only true of money and cleavage.”
― Joni Rodgers, Bald in the Land of Big Hair: A True Story

“Don't delegate your survival to the doctors and hope for the best.
You have to participate in your own cure.
You have to fight.”
― Lawrence Wray

“My head is burning again this morning. I am starting to get used to it and see it as a glow. The head weighs fourteen pounds or thereabouts. Today, mine feels like a giant sunflower perched on top of a slender, swaying reed. It is odd to me how an easy day like yesterday is followed by another like today. I stay with discomfort, and pause to rest the lids of my eyes, my head on its stem.”
― Cathy Edgett, Breast Strokes: Two Friends Journal Through the Unexpected Gifts of Cancer

“If cancer was a mugger you would at least throw a punch.
What's different?”
― Lawrence Wray

“If you have cancer, The Cancer Survivors Club is looking for new members.
We're waiting for you.”
― Lawrence Wray

“Cancer is a fight to the death.
Either you kill it, or it will kill you.
Get ready to brawl.”
― Lawrence Wray

“We all have two lives.
The second one starts when we realise we only have one.”
― Lawrence Wray

“You have to fight, because if you don't, you let the opponent win, and if your opponent is cancer, the results can be deadly.”
― Lawrence Wray

“Did you notice the smile on a cancer patient's face after the last treatment?
That's the smile you want on your face.”
― Lawrence Wray

“I never let anyone see me cry or feel sorry for myself. Attitude and the will to live is so important during and after treatment that if you don't have a good attitude or a strong will to live, treatment doesn't work.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“There’s a phenomenon known as “chemo brain.â€� She described it as feeling foggy, not being as sharp or alert, to which I said, “So, I’ll finally know what it’s like to be above average?”
― Niyati Tamaskar, Unafraid: A survivor's quest for human connection

“Chemotherapy also kills hidden cancer cells of the body... but that's not war.”
― CGJ

“Daily, Mom applied hairspray to her stylish hairdo. I remember the smell and the sound of the chemicals invading her ears, nose, and throat, and mine too since I loved to hang out with her. This era marked the start of the consumer use of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), an organic compound produced as a volatile derivative of methane and ethane that affects the ozone layer of our Earth. These applications of toxins kept Mom’s hair in place until her next appointment. The CFCs from the new aerosol sprays undoubtedly contributed to my sweet mama’s subsequent poor health. But she didn’t stop using hairspray until she went bald from chemotherapy. The United States banned Chlorofluorocarbons in 1978.”
― Donna Maltz, Living Like The Future Matters: The Evolution of a Soil to Soul Entrepreneur

“I just don't know what to expect, Winnie. Every day is different. And usually it's awful.”
― Timothy R. Pearson, Night Reflections: A True Story of Friendship, Love, Cancer, and Survival

“Cancer Research Anti-Cancer Activity PHPC Compound”
― Dr.Dinesh Kacha

“Grief, I’d only begun to learn, can be so startling in the morning, it feels like an ambush.”
― Cara Sapida

“There’s an unspoken expectation that we are going to finish treatment and bounce right back. We are tethered to our Chemo Chairs for months and months and then just tossed back into the world like a deer on ice trying to land on our feet.”
― Cara Sapida

“Nobody craves normalcy more than us! If only it were so simple and easy to move forward, tossing a match behind you and burning the whole ugly experience to the ground. Burn the pink tchotchkes while you’re at it.”
― Cara Sapida

“The overcoming adversity tool isn't something you're born with, or would eagerly sign up for, but it was tossed into my lap like a gift. I promised myself I was coming through this experience stronger. I vowed to be unwavering with my dedication to mental and physical health after cancer. I envisioned a life of peace and I was reaching for it.”
― Cara Sapida

“My last chemo treatment was right around the corner. The enemy I'd pictured pulling a sneak attack on me was losing. My healthy-cell cancer fighter's were kicking in the swinging doors like an old Western movie and smoking those cancer cells one by one. They were doing the physical work; the least I could do was the mental olympics.

The unexpected gift of mental fortitude feels like a secret in the breast cancer sisterhood community.

Let’s vow to one another to accept positive energy only, including from our brains to ourselves.”
― Cara Sapida

“The most important aim of cancer treatment is to achieve cure and secondly life prolongation and relief of sufferings. We must understand the mechanisms of how cancer develops and progresses to unlock new ways to prevent, detect and treat it.”
― Dr. Dinesh Kacha - Researcher

“A need to develop innovative strategies for prevention, and early detection of cancer & to develop resources that support cancer care to prevent, treat and control cancer”
― Dr. Dinesh Kacha - Researcher

“Unfortunately, it is the second most leading cause of death in India. Not all cancers can be categorized as chronic, Some cancers are considered very low-risk, but those that are ongoing and can be watched and treated do become classified as chronic. Cancers such as ovarian, chronic leukemias, some lymphomas, and even some cancers that have spread or come back like metastatic breast or prostate also become chronic cancers”
― Dr. Dinesh Kacha - Researcher

“Unfortunately, cancer is the second most leading cause of death in India. Not all cancers can be categorized as chronic, Some cancers are considered very low-risk, but those that are ongoing and can be watched and treated do become classified as chronic. Cancers such as ovarian, chronic leukemias, some lymphomas, and even some cancers that have spread or come back like metastatic breast or prostate also become chronic cancers”
― Dr Dinesh Kacha

“Most cancers are named for where they start in the body. Many cancers form solid tumors, which are growths of tissue. But there are warning signs Fever, chills
Persistent fatigue, weakness
Bone/joint pain
Unexplained weight loss
Swollen lymph nodes, liver and spleen
Anemia”
― Dr Dinesh Kacha