The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

Cancer tore through her body as if it were late for an important meeting with a lot of other successful diseases.

Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

A few weeks after my surgery, I went out to play catch with my golden retriever. When I bent over to pick up the ball, my prosthesis fell out. The dog snatched it, and I found myself chasing him down the road yelling, 'Hey, come back here with my breast!'

I'm the only topless octogenarian in Washington.

I am not going to fight against death but for life.

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

Scientists now say you can get cancer from the radiation thrown off by your electric blanket. I'm so depressed. Here I am, fifty-six years old, and the most dangerous thing I've ever done in bed is turn on the blanket.