“You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.” KnowsMayWarDrugActivityStressCancerSpreadUsersTerminalTerminal Cancer Author:Tom McCall
“It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.” LongDrugPercentTreatsPatientCancerAppropriateDiagnosisCancer Patients Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!” IfsKnowsMadeWarProblemAmericaMillionsClearStreetsCrimePoliticianDrugSolutionsDollarsMetaphorCancerCorporationsDamnProblem SolvingHomelessDiscourseHomelessnessMillion DollarsNo MoneyWar On DrugsNo WarPublic Discourse Author:George Carlin
“Yes, you have cancer. Yes, your kids are on drugs. Yes, there is an elephant outside your tent. Now the question becomes, What are you going to do about it? Subsequent emotions may not be pleasant, but the hysteria stops. Hysteria accompanies an unwillingness to look at what is really going on; it promotes an unwillingness to look. We feel we are afraid to look, when actually it is not-looking that makes us afraid. The minute we look, we cease being afraid.” FeelsLooksMayKidsEmotionMinutesDrugCancerCeasePleasantElephantsAccompanyBeing AfraidTentsHysteria Book:Travels Source: Travels
“Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don't smoke... tumors.” HumorFunnyDrugCancerSmokeTumors Author:Bo Burnham
“It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process.” MayDifferentProcessClearBecomingDrugDiseaseApproachAspectComplexesCancerTarget Author:Eva Vertes
“Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.” MovingDrugCancerHumanitarianReducing Author:Yusuf Hamied
“Our fears are those that cause cancer and those fears operate in the regions that the drugs we use to hide our fears is the most predominate feeling. Our minds cause our inner illness for the most part.” MindUseFeelingsCausesDrugCancerIllnessRegions Author:Steven Machat
“You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but we all know 400,000 people a year die of cigarette-related deaths. How many people died of drugs, guns, automobile accidents? You add them all together it doesn't come anywhere near that. Yet they let me smoke and get cancer, and they put me in jail for having drugs. What's going on? The government don't care. It's all about money and job security.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsCountryGovernmentCareTogetherJobsDiesSecurityCrimeDrugGunLet MeDiedAddCancerDon't CareAccidentsWhat You WantSmokeUsaRelatedJailCigaretteAutomobile Author:Sonny Barger
“If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.” IfsBodyJoyPowerfulDrugAnxietyCancerYour BodyTranquilityMoleculesAdrenalineConvertingExhilarationValium Author:Deepak Chopra
“AZT was never meant to treat HIV. It was meant to treat cancer and, when it was discovered to be toxic, the drug companies stopped clinic trials of the drug because it was so toxic. Is this drug really one we want to use?” WantUseCompanyDrugTreatsCancerTrialsToxicHivClinicDrug Companies Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
“A cigarette is a roll of paper, tobacco, and drugs, with a small fire on one end and a large fool at the other. Some of its chief benefits are cancer of the lips and stomach, softening of the brain, funeral procesions, and families shrouded in gloom and grief. Although a great many people know this, they still smoke in order to appear sophisticated.” PeopleKnowsStillsEndsOrderGriefBrainFireFoolDrugPaperBenefitsLipsCancerChiefsSmokeGreat MenStomachFuneralCigaretteSophisticatedTobaccoGloom Author:Ann Landers
“It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.” WantStatesUnitedLeaderUnited StatesDrugStandardsPatientCancerChinaSettingCuresSettingsReverseSlow DownHigh StandardsSlowing Author:Bill Gates
“The federal government overrules state laws where state laws permit medicinal marijuana for people dying of cancer. The federal government goes in and arrests these people, put them in prison with mandatory, sometimes life sentences. This war on drugs is totally out of control. If you want to regulate cigarettes and alcohol and drugs, it should be at the state level.” PeopleIfsWantShouldWarSometimesStatesGovernmentLawLevelsDyingDrugPrisonCancerSentencesAlcoholPermitMarijuanaCigaretteFederal GovernmentWar On DrugsSometimes In LifePeople DyingCigarettes And Alcohol Author:Ron Paul
“Cancer vaccines are in the future. And they could be very effective. Checkpoint blockade, which is acting your immune system to recognize those cancer cells and kill them is another very promising approach and there have been some checkpoint blockade drugs out in the market now that will release the brake on T lymphocytes, the T lymphocyte is your major killer of tumor cells.” Has BeensActingDrugApproachMajorsCancerReleaseCellsKillersImmuneVaccinesImmune SystemBrakeTumorsBlockadesCheckpoints Author:Laurie Glimcher
“When you think of the costs of cancer care, one can imagine that drugs like checkpoint blockers or transfer of these T lymphocytes are actually cost-saving, just as treatments for hepatitis C, while expensive, overall save money by preventing hepatitis and hep - hepatocarcinoma in patients.” ThinkingCareImagineCostDrugPatientCancerSavingExpensiveTreatmentImagine ThatTransfersSaving MoneyPreventingCheckpointsHepatitisHepatitis C Author:Laurie Glimcher
“There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsSometimesUseChoicesNumbersDrugEssentialsDoctorsPatientCancerOilFranceTreatmentConventionalHerbsInfectionSmall NumbersPeople With CancerEssential Oils Author:Robert Tisserand
“Having a mother who has had cancer and fought through it and at times used cannabis to you know fight off nausea and whatnot. I mean it's not really her thing, but there were times when she needed it and the idea that you can't have it because it's an illegal drug, but OxyContin is legal. That's you know that's just insane to a level that I think most people understand.” PeopleThinkingMeanMotherFightingDrugCancerInsane Author:John Buffalo Mailer
“I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.” GivingCareLawWrittenDrugGiving UpCancerAccessCuresSavingSeniorMedicareBeneficiariesLife SavingHospice Author:Ron Wyden