Breast Cancer Quotes

Lisa Wanzor

Breast cancer is never diagnosed until you’re an adult, so something is happening over the course of women’s lives. I don’t want to wait until my 7-year-old daughter has grown up before we have definitive proof that all these chemicals are causing breast cancer or other illnesses.

Nikolai Lenin

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

Olivia Newton-John

My cancer scare changed my life. I’m grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

Dr. Carolyn Runowicz

Think about breast cancer. It can take seven years for breast cells to go from pre-cancerous to cancer, to a cancer that’s palpable. So these results may simply be too early.

John Diamond

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

Olivia Newton John

My wish is that all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.

Kathy Johnston

Anna was doing her monthly breast examine and found something. She went to the doctor and that’s honestly what saved her life for a while. If she’d caught it earlier, who knows. I can’t stress getting an exam enough. They just should not be dying this young. Women should not be dying of breast cancer at age 56.

Marcia Smith

Cancer is not a death sentence, but rather it is a life sentence; it pushes one to live.

Cedric F. Garland

African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well.

Lance Armstrong

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Yuman Donna Phipps

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer I wasn’t sick. I felt fine and that’s the scary part. When I started the treatments I felt sick.

Lawrence Leshan

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.

Larry Craig

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is due to early detection and better treatments for women. I strongly encourage women to get a mammogram.

Bruce Trock

We need to take into account that Asian women are more physically active, drink less alcohol, have children earlier, and their entire diet is different from Western women, all of which decrease their breast cancer risk.

Larry Lucchino

For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist’s lab bench to the patient’s bedside must be shortened.

Fred Hutchinson

The take-home message is that this study gives us a more definitive reason that breast-feeding is one way to reduce risk of breast cancer.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

Asthma Quotes

Dominique Wilkins

As long as they are medicated the right way with the asthma medicine they won't have any problems.

Chevalier Jackson

Not all that wheezes is asthma.

Biggie Smalls

Run from the police picture that, niggga I'm too fat, I fuck around and catch a asthma attack, That's why I bust back, it don't phase me, When he drop, take his glock, and I'm Swayze.

Steve Allen

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

Jerome Bettis

So many kids have asthma and think they can't do it.

Winston Vaughan

Los Angeles has some of the worst soot pollution in the nation and our kids and senior citizens suffer asthma attacks and other serious health programs as a result.

Patrick White

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays

Dr. Ashok Shah

When you treat one part (of asthma), the other parts are still active.

Claude Lenfant

Although asthma experts around the world have recognized the effectiveness of inhaled corticosteroids in treating asthma, their long-term effects in children were not clear.

T S Elio

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Alfred Hitchcock

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Ville Valo

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

Meat Loaf

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

Holly Marie Combs

To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

Gifford Miller

Our young people who have asthma will not be exposed to the same sorts of toxic substances in our schools

Paul Blanc

This has been seen with other diseases besides asthma, although not usually as an effect over and above personal economic status. Where we live doesn't predict our fate, but it surely links to our health. We should identify the key environmental agents and work to decrease how much people are exposed to them in their daily lives.

Steve Holman

I thought I was having a heart attack or something. They gave me a shot of adrenaline and something else for the asthma so I could do the game the next night. They thought I was crazy to do it. They wanted me to go in the hospital for three days. But I was able to get through it.

Paul Ehrlich

One of the key factors contributing to this country's rising asthma epidemic is that patients are not equipped to recognize and manage their triggers and symptoms. As a result, patients don't effectively communicate with their doctors and end up comprising basic daily activities.

David Lang

As a physician, it can be very frustrating to care for patients with difficult-to-control asthma, so when we have a medication available that can improve outcomes such as this, it's exciting.