Breast Cancer Quotes

I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery.

~ Giuliana Rancic

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

I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.

~ Erika Slezak

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

Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.

~ Anne Wojcicki

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

~ Leroy Hood

We can reduce these cancer rates - breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer - by 90 percent or more by people adopting what I call a nutritrarian diet.

~ Joel Fuhrman

My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

~ Evelyn Lauder

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

Lifestyle changes may help reduce risk, but no study has shown that lifestyle changes alone can eliminate the risk of breast cancer, especially in those carrying the BRCA mutation.

~ Dean Ornish