If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.
Tony MillionaireI don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.
He smiled. Gallows humor.
The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.
Andreas MoritzTags: medicine cancer oncology
She had six months at most left to live. She had cancer, she hissed. A filthy growth eating her insides away. There was an operation, she'd been told. They took half your stomach out and fitted you up with a plastic bag. Better a semicolon than a full stop, some might say.
Helen HodgmanTags: cancer colon colostomy stomach
Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.
Sarah WylieA sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.
Steve MaraboliTags: relationships gratitude business entitlement nations cancer
Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.
John GreenTags: cancer
I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time would now pass for me differently then it would for him- that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter.
John GreenTags: illness cancer death-of-a-loved-one death-of-a-teenager
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
John GreenTags: art illness cancer cancer-kids children-with-cancer
It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...
John GreenTags: pain sorrow sad cancer augustus sorrowful
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