#cancer

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#alzheimer #arthritis #burdens #cancer #chronic

The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work. ↗

— David Suzuki

#bodies #cancer #diabetes #diet #disease

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#having #sense #shakes #shoulders #takes

Everyone needs to be proactive and know the various warning signs of cancer. Early detection and research to make detection easier at earlier stages, along with the treatments needs, is still a must. I salute all those winning the battle. ↗

— Dennis Franz

#battle #cancer #detection #earlier #early

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic. ↗

— Richard Ford

#life #memories #nostalgia #siblings #life

My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill. ↗

— David Frum

#died #ever #figure #great #having

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. ↗

— James Larkin

#above #alien #all things #body #cancer

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#bigger #cancer #cell #country #cure

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point. ↗

— Laura Linney

#change #everyone #own #people #point

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #much #show #than #tv