“India is using troops in Kashmir. They are losing the battle of heart and minds. It's like treating cancer with dispirin.” MindHeartBattleLosingIndiaCancerTroopsHeart And MindKashmir Author:Imran Khan
“I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news is priceless.” ThinkingPersonsHardFallFightingSidesBattleNewsPicksCancerPricelessDeliveryBad NewsYour SideAppointments Author:Jenna Morasca
“All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.” HandsBloodNew YorkChangedBattleHollywoodCancerThanksSmokingThroatThreateningNew York TimesThroat Cancer Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.” WritingBattleDeterminationCancerGoing AwayEditorialsAnnouncements Author:Joe Eszterhas
“We could have lost faith and just let this battle with cancer get the best of us, or I could give my daughter's battle with cancer a purpose and use my platform to try to raise as much awareness as possible.” GivingTryingUsePurposeLostAwarenessBattleDaughterRaisesCancerMy DaughterPlatformsLost Faith Author:Devon Still
“When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.” GuyLostTermBattleCancerBotherCourageousHeroicDefeated Author:Norm MacDonald
“It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.” PeopleFeelsSeemsDifferencesBattleDiseaseBraveCancerInequalityOld PeopleFartFeeling LonelyDementiaAlzheimerAlzheimer'sOld Farts Author:Terry Pratchett
“In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'” IfsLongAmericaTakenBattleBeatsCancerFortunatePoisonKnivesArticlesRadiationBlastChemotherapy Author:Abraham Verghese
“We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.” NeedsHumansDiesUniverseWaterConsciousnessAwarenessCreationBattleDiedVictimCancerDevotedHuman ConsciousnessAugustusLengthyAugustus Waters Book:The Fault in Our Stars Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.” PeopleIfsKidsJesusSeaDyingPaintingHonorBattleGloryCrossesCancerIllnessHopefullyNecksSomedayYellowPlagueMartyrFeverParadesBitingDead PeopleSmallpoxPeople DyingYellow Fever Author:John Green
“The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.” IfsWantShouldWarDiesTerribleBattleCancerStupidityAshamedNonsenseSponsorsMaladyStem CellStem Cell Research Book:Mortality Source: Mortality