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In an essay titled A View From the Front Line, Jencks described her experience with cancer as like being woken up midflight on a jumbo jet and then thrown out with a parachute into a foreign landscape without a map: "There you are, the future patient, quietly progressing with other passengers toward a distant destination when, astonishingly (Why me?) a large hole opens in the floor next to you. People in white coats appear, help you into a parachute and — no time to think — out you go. "You descend. You hit the ground....But where is the enemy? What is the enemy? What is it up to?...No road. No compass. No map. No training. Is there something you should know and don't? "The white coats are far, far away, strapping others into their parachutes. Occasionally they wave but, even if you ask them, they don't know the answers. They are up there in the Jumbo, involved with parachutes, not map-making.


Siddhartha Mukherjee


#cancer #maggie-jencks #experience

The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.


Henry Miller


#chaos #henry-miller #music #reality #reality-of-life

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.


Sofia Vergara


#panic #tell #you

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!


Jim Valvano


#arthur #arthur ashe #ashe #back #brains

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


#best friend #cancer #died #father #five

In a review of 206 human-population studies raw vegetable consumption showed the strongest protective effect against cancer of any beneficial food. However, fewer than one in a hundred Americans consumes enough calories from vegetation to ensure this defense.


Joel Fuhrman


#greens #nutrition #raw #salad #food

Until I was diagnosed with mouth cancer, I'd never heard of it.


Jack Wild


#diagnosed #heard #i #mouth #never

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.


David Wilkerson


#bonnie #both #cancer #daughters #debbie

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.


John Green


#death #death

Because really, what do you have to lose? Your life? That's no big deal, I promise you. When you find out you might die, you're finally allowed to live like you never have before. If you lose your life while living the shit out of it, then you've done the best you could, and you shouldn't worry about death. When you're dead, you can't screw up. But while you're here, all you have are a few things to call your own. You have your integrity, your family, and your hope for the future. These are important and you should keep them somewhere safe where you'll remember them.


Kevin Lankes


#death #inspirational #death