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Breast Cancer Quotes

2011-10-19T06:22:00.000-07:00

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

2011-10-06T22:22:00.000-07:00

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.

Heart Attack Quotes

2011-10-05T07:33:00.000-07:00

Demetri Martin

I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.

Dick Cheney

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

K. Srinath Reddy

As epidemics of heart attack, stroke, depression and diabetes are only increasing, we need to understand the vast majority of people in India have little or no access to those treatments proven to prevent these conditions.

Brian Collins

We were scrappy. We hustled for every loose ball. If we hit free throws we win going away, without everybody in the stands having a heart attack.

Lisa Marie Presley

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

Tony Stewart

I'm serious as a heart attack. I'll wake up, I may have stab marks in my back from the edges, but I'm sleeping with it tonight. I'm scared somebody will get in my room and get it. That's how serious I am about it. I mean, it means that much to me.

Eugene Ormandy on death David Oistrakh

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Lt. Mel Hardy

We have two dispatchers, and they're handling roughly 200 to 300 phone calls from people who want to know when their street's going to be plowed. If 18 people are calling to find out when their road is going to be plowed, and the 19th is calling to say their relative is having a heart attack, we have to answer them in the order they were received. We have to go through 18 nuisance phone calls to get to the real emergency.

Dr. Brown

In women, aspirin prevents strokes and doesn't have any real effect on heart attack, and in men aspirin prevents heart attacks but has no effect on the prevention of strokes. So there appears to be a gender-based difference in the beneficial effect of aspirin.

Robert A. Heinlein

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?

Dr. Susmita

Depression is common among patients with heart attacks. About 22 percent of all heart attack patients are depressed.

Kristen Bell

I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.

Christopher Ruhm

Heart attack fatalities rise when the economy strengthens.

Pete Maravich

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

Umed Ajani

We saw an increase in aspirin use among U.S adults since 1999, with a majority of adults using aspirin to reduce the chance of a heart attack or stroke. Aspirin use among those with diabetes is also increasing to reduce the risk of cardiovascular complications. The trend is encouraging, especially in times when prevalence of other cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity and diabetes, is increasing.

Carre Otis

It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.

John Hogan

This time, they sound serious as a heart attack. It's a bottom-line corporate thing, and it's a typical move we see all the time now.

Charlie Sheen

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.