Cancer

(236 votes)   Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) 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
1933-, American Essayist

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(209 votes)   Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(209 votes)   We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

Gilbert Adair
American Author

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(180 votes)   Who ever said winning isn't everything, never had to fight CANCER.

Unknown Unknown

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(117 votes)   My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

John Cheever
1912-1982, American Author

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(104 votes)   I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

John B. S. Haldane
1892-1964, British Scientist, Author

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