Best Chemotherapy Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I had a big lump in my throat, I could see it and I didn't do anything about it. Eventually, I went to the doctor. Luckily for me, I didn't have to have any chemotherapy - it was a quite contained type of cancer. It made me think a lot about what I wanted out of life.”

“Doctors didn't know if I would survive. The cancer was too big to operate on, so they blitzed it with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.”

“One day, I had a patient who was going through chemotherapy who came to me and said, 'I'm going to go on with what I'm doing, but I need you to tell me what it is that I'm fighting.'”

“Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses.”

“Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.”

“Ever since a therapy dog visited me in the hospital during my first cycle of chemotherapy in May 2011, I became fixated on the idea of having a dog of my own one day.”

“Chemotherapy and radiation have side effects, and they can cause secondary cancers.”

“I got heckled by a woman, and my riposte fixed upon her unfortunate hair texture, only for her to remove her wig and reveal to the room the horrors of chemotherapy.”

“I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.”

“Chemotherapy isn't good for you.”

“People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.”

“Chemotherapy tests your sanity.”

“I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.”

“When you're getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it's just you, feeling like you're in a fight against something that you can't control.”

“Robert Sandler is a child who died when he was three years old, and he is a child who was the first child that we know of to be treated with chemotherapy.”

“The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.”

“I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.”

“Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.”

“Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.”

“After my diagnosis at age 22 with leukemia, the second piece of news I learned was that I would likely be infertile as a result of chemotherapy. It was a one-two punch that was my first indication that issues of cancer and sexual health are inextricably tied.”

“Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments.”

“If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.”