Browse 111 quotes about Cancer Quotes.
“This is the secret: while you were going through the pain and sorrow of cancer treatment, everything inside you was dissolving and evolving, letting go of old parts of yourself and creating new ones.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“You could say cancer treatment took part of you away, but in doing so it allowed a purer part of who you are to come to the surface.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“The cancer treatment is over, and a lot of what and who you were before the cancer has gone with it.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Through the negative experience of cancer treatment you have the opportunity to rediscover yourself, to peel back the layers and connect with the very purest part of you that’s probably been buried for most of your life.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“My life before cancer was great, but if I compare that life to the one I have now, post-treatment, I wouldn’t go back there for all the money in the world. No, really: if you told me you could rewind my life so that I never had to go through cancer treatment, I would say thank you – but no thank you.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Cancer treatment didn’t take your beauty, your identity or anything else. Yes, going through that trauma changed you but, contrary to what you may believe right now, it didn’t change you for the worse – it changed you for the better.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Cancer treatment was the cocoon where I underwent an incredible transformation.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“I hated the person I had become through my cancer experience – she was unfamiliar, and that felt strange and incredibly uncomfortable. And to feel that way is perfectly normal.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Right now you probably believe that if you let go of who you were before the cancer, then you might disappear altogether. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Letting go of the old version of you is the only way to allow yourself to discover who you’ve become.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“I intend to appreciate, marvel and enjoy all the time that I have left, with cancer or without it.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“El amor es sencillo. Todo lo que no sea así no es amor. La vida es demasiado difícil como para complicarla más. Pero no me refiero a las dificultades del día a día: un móvil roto, un constipado, llegar tarde a una reunión importante... La verdadera dificultad de la vida es cuando te pone frente a una situación y te das cuenta de que preferirías hacer frente a todas las cosas de las que antes te quejabas, aunque llegasen a la vez. Ahí sí que estás frente a un problema.”
Source: Siempre fuertes
“When a life-threatening diagnosis comes knocking on your door in the form of cancer, it is impossible to deny the reality of your impending mortality.”
Source: Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver's Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses
“All Cancers have that uncanny ability to sense what's up or what's eating someone.”
Source: Astrology for Real Life: A Workbook for Beginners
“CANcer CAN't, you CAN, win.”
Source: If Cancer Can, You Too Can, Fight.
“Negativity captured in a cell is cancer; to win cancer you have to kill every bit of negativity with positive thoughts.”
Source: If Cancer Can, You Too Can, Fight.
“Do YOU want to be known as a cancer patient, or a cancer fighter? You got it. You know it. You can do it.”
Source: If Cancer Can, You Too Can, Fight.
“Will power will power up your spirit to combat cancer.”
Source: If Cancer Can, You Too Can, Fight.
“Fight cancer not just for yourself but for them also who love you and want you to be with them.”
Source: If Cancer Can, You Too Can, Fight.
“I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman's breast, you are cutting more than just a body part.”
Source: Where the River Ends
“Stay positive, stay strong, stay together and just keep going!”
“Love and laughter are two of the most important universal cancer treatments on the planet. Overdose on them.”
“Cancer can touch you, but not your soul; neither your thoughts, nor your heart.”
Source: Guru with Guitar
“Love and laughter are stronger than cancer.”
“I needed someone to tell me how God could allow someone He loved to suffer so much when I wouldn't do this to someone I hated.”
“There is beauty in finding the silver lining, even
through the darkness. It is there if you search for it.”
“We normally know we're getting older, when the only thing we want for our birthday, is not to be reminded; unless you're a cancer survivor, then we love being reminded!”
Source: The Cancer Survivors Club: A collection of inspirational and uplifting stories
“No hair? Don’t care!!”
“Without hair, A queen is still a queen’.”
“As moms we put ourselves last all of the time. Now is the time to stop that. For the next few months in treatment, your life and your family's lives will revolve around how you feel, so make sure you do things that make you feel good. Find food you like, a God you trust, and friends that support you.”
Source: Chemo, Cupcakes and Carpools
“Illness was a monster that out of nowhere jumped on you with its claws out.”
Source: The Good Mother of Marseille
“Inside I was freaking out! OMG! His hair is falling out! This just got real.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“I was given fluid and another blood transfusion, after which I felt like I could conquer the world! This process would become my normal: chemo, get horribly sick, trip to Assessment, fluid, blood transfusion, feel better.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“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.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“We are the crazy, cool cancer misfits trying to find our way after the terrible trauma of treatment. We are everywhere. We are a tribe without even knowing it.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Free Your Mind
Be mindful of negativity
Negative thoughts become obsessions
Obsessions become deep emotions
Emotions become painful
Pain becomes cancerous to the body
Free the mind from poison”
Source: Island Mindfulness: How to Use the Transformational Power of Mindfulness to Create an Abundant Life
“Those of us who have been through cancer know that surviving treatment isn’t where the cancer journey ends. In fact, for many of us, this is where the hardest part of the journey begins.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“For some of us, the hardest part of the cancer journey is surviving life AFTER treatment, the doctor tells us we should return to our lives and put the experience of cancer behind us but going through treatment fundamentally changes you forever and it’s impossible to go back to the life we knew before.”
Source: The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment
“Having cancer, fighting cancer, and beating cancer have been THE defining events in my life, and though it was the most terrifying, I know that it has changed me for the better, forever.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Fighting the disease is hard enough, even when you are completely focused on just that. Extra time and effort spent worrying about the situation can be detrimental to your body's physical health.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Cancer represents a very specific, emotional uniqueness of your body failing you, generally through no fault of your own. But please know that no matter how hard or bad you believe your situation to be, there is somebody out there who's got it worse.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“When I was initially diagnosed with cancer, I questioned God's reasoning for giving me such a debilitating disease. But then it dawned on me: He chose me to give this disease because He knew that I could handle it!”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“I had been looking forward to actually beginning to fight this disease, this foreign invader that had kidnapped my spirit and ransacked my body )like the Dothraki in Game of Thrones would have certainly done.)”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“You must realize that having cancer affects not only you, but everyone who cares for you as well. I had realized this after only one year of treatment, but I don't think I've ever truly understood how hard the experience was for my family.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“My name is Brett Cordes and I just want to let you know that I'm standing here right now because you saved my life 12 years ago." There. Was. Silence. "I know who you are," his voice quivered just above a whisper as he walked over to the bookshelf and grabbed my father's letter. "Your father wrote me this letter about a year after you finished treatment, and I've kept it ever since and show it to all my residents and fellows ...to show them why we do what we do.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“It was in that moment that not only did I experience my lowest point through my cancer journey, but as I look back, I realize that I also experienced one of my most empowering.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“As it turned out, everyone knew that I had cancer. That is, everyone except me.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“We were not mentally prepared for this option. It was overwhelming. What do we tell our boys, how will they react? You have a hundred thoughts racing through your head, and they are all maneuvering for the ability to create clarity amidst the confusion, but they cannot.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“I always felt like it was out of place, kind of like the idea that you're sitting in jail and lean over and ask the guy next to you, "Hey, buddy...What are you in for?" The irony is, most of them ...maybe not all but most wanted to talk. They/we have a story to tell. It is our story of survival ...our story of fighting the great battle and hoping to come through victorious.
-Kyle”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“This was not going to be an easy experience, but let me say this as clearly as I know how; nothing anybody says can prepare you for what lay ahead... nothing. I considered myself a tough human being. I was a soldier. Like, not a "No Limit" soldier or "soldier for life" ...like an actual United States soldier, for crying out loud.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“Some of this is difficult to put into words and almost a little embarrassing, but can we became my identity for 18 months of my life. I didn’t have a conversation with anyone outside of my close circle of family or friends that didn’t revolve around having cancer or treating cancer.
-Kyle”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease