Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old breast cancer quotes, breast cancer sayings, and breast cancer proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.Giuliana Rancic
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Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.Melissa Etheridge
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Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate.Stephanie McMahon
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Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Life after breast cancer can go back to normal. It's just the normal that has changed.unknown
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Cancer is a word, not a sentence. John Diamond
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You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.Dave Pelzer
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I had cancer, cancer never had me. unknown
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There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.Ann Jillian
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Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself.Betsey Johnson
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You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live. unknown
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Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.Jaclyn Smith
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Don't let breast cancer take away the motivation to achieve your dreams.Diana Cohen
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If you have any doubt, go back again… Because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesn't necessarily mean they're rightKylie Minogue
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Cancer can touch you, but not your soul; neither your thoughts, nor your heart.Vikrmn
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Breast cancer changes you, and the change can be beautiful.Jane Cook
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Cancer may have started the fight, but I will finish it.unknown
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Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.Mindy Sterling
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If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with ‘sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.Hoda Kotb
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I have surgery scars, but I consider them battle scars.unknown
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Love and laughter are two of the most important universal cancer treatments on the planet. Overdose on them.Tanya Masse
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.Cynthia Nixon
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It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.Robin Roberts
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.Bell Hooks
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Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.Olivia Newton-John
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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.Nikolai Lenin
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I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.Carly Simon
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Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.Tanya Masse
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I believe that breast cancer will soon become something we live with rather than die from…Lindsay Nicholson
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Show you care. Be aware.unknown
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The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.Karl Georg Bchner
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Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.unknown
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Whoever said winning isn't everything, obviously wasn't fighting breast cancer.unknown
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I have cancer. Cancer doesn't have me.Marco Calderon
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When someone has cancer, the whole family & everyone who loves them does, too.Terri Clark
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October is breast cancer awareness month, but for a survivor, it's every single day.unknown
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Joy shouldn't go away because you have cancer.Mandi Hudson
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No matter what the statistics say, there is always a way.Bernie Siegel
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You have been assigned this mountain, to show others it can be moved.unknown
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Cancer does not have a face until it's yours or someone you know.Anthony del Monte
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As a survivor of breast cancer, I cannot imagine what it must be like for children to battle the disease, or to be a terrified parent watching their child endure treatments. Hoda Kotb
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I wasn't ever afraid of cancer, but I was annoyed. It was an interruption because I was turning 48 and time was getting on for my running. But I heeded the message. And now that I've come out the other end, I can help other ladies go through the same thing.Priscilla Welch
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My mother has had breast cancer twice. And my mother has always been this very positive human being; a glass-half-full type. Like when she was in treatment and feeling really bad, she would always talk about some nurse that was particularly nice to her.Susanne Bier
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Whoever thought up the word 'mammogram?' Every time I hear it I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and then send it to someone.Jan King
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If you maintain that god awards the appropriate cancers, you must also account for the numbers of infants who contract leukemia.Hitchens
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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic.Hitchens
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is, a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene— in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.Susan Sontag
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While breast cancer among young women is on the rise, 80 percent of breast cancers occur in postmenopausal women, and 60 percent of women with breast cancer live as long as women without the disease.Alicia Alvrez
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Now, it is cancer's turn to be the disease that doesn't knock before it enters.Susan Sontag
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To confront cancer is to encounter a parallel species, one perhaps more adapted to survival than we are.Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Cancer is on the rise, and though most of us will not 'slouch towards a malignant end' each of us will know someone who does.Siddhartha Mukherjee
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An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.Yiddish Proverb
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Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.English Proverb
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A disease known is half-cured.Irish Proverb
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All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons.St. Augustine of Hippo
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Before you can cure the diseases of the body, you must cure the diseases of the soul— greed, ignorance, prejudice, and intolerance.Paul Ehrlich
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Cures were developed for which there were no known diseasesRonald Reagan
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My diagnosis flung me into despair until it hit me: I’m alive.Dana Dinerman
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Cancer didn't bring me to my knees; it brought me to my feet.Michael Douglas
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Cancer is a journey, but you walk the road alone. There are many places to stop along the way and get nourishment – you just have to be willing to take it.Emily Hollenberg
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More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.Sheryl Crow
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You know, once you've stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.David H. Koch
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Men get it. I think us men need you, women, to help us survive.Peter Criss
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Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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With breast cancer, it’s all about detection. You have to educate young women and encourage them to do everything they have to do.Bill Rancic
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Since I had cancer I've realized that every day is a bonus.Geoffrey Boycott
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.Ingrid Bergman
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Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.Michael Douglas