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We may have to learn to live with cancer rather than die of it. It means a big change in our mindset and how we do research. We haven't quite reached there yet.

Cancer cells have a lot of other things that are really wrong with them, and we should never forget that these are cells that have become deaf to all the signals that the body sends out, such as you can multiply a certain amount, you can be in a certain place in the body, where to stay, where to move, and so on.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

We have forgotten that curing cancer starts with preventing cancer in the first place.

I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.