Cancer is enough to get my attention. ~ Charles Grodin

Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease. ~ Lawrence Leshan

At the time, the most horrendous thing I could imagine was someone sticking a needle in my breast. ~ Cathy Masamitsu, Breast Cancer? Let Me Check My Schedule!

So many of my family and friends had lost their battles against cancer. What could I do that my relatives and friends had not? What could I do that would be different? ~ Michael Milken

With cancer, there's always that doubt--that unknown. The only thing you can do is be positive. ~ Merril Hoge, USA Today, 8/24/04

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis. ~ Peter Jennings, USA Today, 4/6/05

We are all precancerous. ~ George Carlin

I was told in August to get my affairs in order, that everything now would simply be experimental. Several doctors said I probably have weeks to months. I walked out of the office and said “No, I will show you. I will live much longer.” ~ Kathy Bandol, USA Today, 4/19/05

More than ten million Americans are living with cancer and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer. ~ Sheryl Crow, 2/06

Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis. ~ Dana Reeve

So, there was only one thing to do when Mom got ill: Read the books. Find the resources. Flip on the scary-smart switch I was too lazy to use most of the time. And cure cancer. ~ Brian Fies, Mom's Cancer

As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been. ~ Shelley Hamlin

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it’s meant to improve us. ~ Lance Armstrong

I have that never say die attitude. And that's the kind of way you have to approach it. You can't lay down and take it, you know? You live on your terms, not on the cancer's terms. ~ Jeffrey Newbauer Jr.

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