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Top 10 Ways to Know You are a Cancer Survivor


10 Your alarm clock goes off at 6 a.m. and you're glad to hear it.
9. Your mother-in-law invites you to lunch and you just say NO.
8. You're back in the family rotation to take out the garbage.
7. When you no longer have an urge to choke the person who says,

    "all you need to beat cancer is the right attitude."
6. When your dental floss runs out and you buy 1000 yards.
5. When you use your toothbrush to brush your teeth and not comb your hair.
4. You have a chance to buy additional life insurance but you buy a new

    convertible car instead.
3. Your doctor tells you to lose weight and do something about your

    cholesterol and you actually listen.
2. When your biggest annual celebration is again your birthday, and not

    the day you were diagnosed.
1. When you use your Visa card more than your hospital parking pass.

 

 

A religious man discovers that he has testicular cancer, and decides to pray for a miracle. The next day he visits a urologist, who tells him he must have surgery immediately. He tells the doctor "I do not want you to remove my testicle, I am praying for a miracle from God". Then he visits a radiologist, who tells him that he must begin radiation therapy immediately. He tells the doctor "I do not want you to expose my body to radiation, I am putting my faith in God." Finally he visits an oncologist, who tells him that he must start chemotherapy immediately. He tells the doctor "I do not want you to inject me with caustic chemicals, God will heal me." A few months later he dies and goes to heaven, where he is very upset and asks God why he didn't give him a miracle. God replies "I gave you three miracles, a urologist, an oncologist and a radiologist, but you chose to ignore them."

 

 

A patient visited his urologist for testicular cancer and expressed concern about being able to perform after the operation. The patient was also worried about the chemotherapy. The doctor said "I too had testicular cancer a few years ago. Ten days after the operation I made passionate love with my wife, and forgot all my worries. Try it and see for yourself." Three weeks later the patient returns, and thanks the doctor effusively. The doctor says "I'm glad my advice helped." The patient thanks him again, and as he's leaving says "By the way Doctor, you have a really beautiful house."

 

 

Cancer cures smoking, eventually.

 

 

When I told a friend that I have cancer, he replied "I thought you were an Aries?".

 

 

A man hears from his doctor that he has cancer and only has six months to live. The doctor recommends that he marry an accountant and move to Cultra. The man asks, "Will this cure my cancer?" "No," said the doctor, "but the six months will seem much longer!"

 

 

Doctor:      I've got your test results and I have some bad news. You have

                  cancer and Alzheimer's.

Patient:     Boy, am I lucky! I was afraid I had cancer!

 

 

Q               What do you call a person who has a compulsion to get lymphoma

                  over and over again?

A               A Lymphomaniac.

 

 

On board a flight to London, the pilot announced, "That thump you heard was our last engine conking out. I'm really sorry to tell you this, but we are going to crash into the ocean."

In the stunned silence that followed, an angry voice spoke out. "Dammit! That stupid doctor of mine! He said I was going to die of cancer."

 

 

Why did the cancer victim cross the road?

He was hoping to get hit by a truck

 

 

Mary was walking through Tesco’s when she ran into Harry, who she hadn't seen in a couple of years. They got to talking and eventually Harry enquired after Grahame; her husband.

‘Oh Dear: haven't you heard? Unfortunately he’s no longer with us.’

‘What dead?’

‘Yes.’

‘I’m sorry to hear that. If it’s not too intrusive, can I enquire what he died of?’

.The big C got him.’

‘Oh my God.’ he replied. ‘Cancer is so common nowadays.’

‘Ah no it wasn’t cancer, he fell overboard the Belfast Liverpool ferry, and drowned in

“THE BIG SEA.’

Jokes, mostly about cancer, hospitals, or just life.

 

A man isn't feeling well, so he goes to see his doctor. The doctor examines him, and then asks to speak with his wife. The doctor tells his wife that her husband has cancer. The wife asks "can he be cured?". The doctor replies "there's a chance we can cure him with chemotherapy, but you will need to take care of him every day for the next year -- cooking all the meals, cleaning up the vomit, changing the bed pan, driving him to the hospital for daily treatments, and so on". When the wife comes out to the waiting room, the husband asks her what the doctor said. The wife answers "he said that you're going to die".

 

 

How can nurses stand to work in busy hospitals?

They have lots of patients.

 

 

What do you call a doctor who is always on the telephone?

An ON-CALLogist.

 

 

What do you call bugs with cancer? MalignANT and BEEnign.

An Irishman named Mike O'Leary went to his doctor after a long illness. The doctor, after a lengthy examination, sighed and looked Mike in the eye and said, "I've some bad news for you... you have a cancer known as Galloping Leukaemia and it can't be cured. I give you two weeks to a month."

Mike, who was shocked and saddened by the news, but of solid character, managed to compose himself and walk from the doctor's office into the waiting room. There he saw his son, who had been waiting. Mike said, "Son, we Irish celebrate when things are good and we celebrate when things don't go so well. In this case, things aren't so well. I have cancer and I've been given a short time to live. Let's head for the pub and have a few pints."

After three or four pints, the two were feeling a little less sombre. There were some laughs, some tears, and more beers. They were eventually approached by some of Mike's old friends who asked what the two were celebrating. Mike told them that the Irish celebrate the good and the bad. He went on to tell them that they were drinking to his impending end. He told his friends, "I've only got a few weeks to live as I have been diagnosed with AIDS." The friends gave O'Leary their condolences and they all had a few more beers.

After his friends left, Mike's son leaned over and whispered in confusion, "Dad, I thought you said that you were dying from cancer. You just told your friends that you were dying from AIDS."

Mike replied, "I am dying from cancer, son. I just don't want any of them sleeping with your mother after I'm gone.

 

 

Three buddies were talking about death and dying. One asked, "When you're in your casket and friends and family are mourning you, what would you like to hear them say about you?"

The first guy says, "I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time and a great family man."

The second man says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow."

The last guy says, "I would like to hear them say LOOK, HE'S MOVING!!!"

 

 

Q          How many cancer patients does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A.         Just one, but it takes a support group to cheer him on, and there's

             a lot of grieving afterwards.

 

 

What's the difference between God and a doctor

God doesn't think he’s a doctor

 

 

Q   What’s the difference between an oral and a rectal thermometer?

A   The taste

 

 

Real Doctor's Notes
  1.   Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.
  2.   Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.
  3.   On the second day, the knee was better, and then on the third day it disappeared.
  4.   The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed.
  5.   Discharge status: Alive, but without my permission.
  6.   Healthy-appearing decrepit, 69-year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.
  7.   The patient refused autopsy.
  8.   The patient has no previous history of suicides.
  9.   Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital.
10.   Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a

        40-pound weight gain in the last three days.
11.   She is numb from her toes down.
12.   Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.
13.   I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.
14.   Skin: somewhat pale but present.
15.   The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993.

 

 

What's the difference between a skinhead and a cancer victim?
The skinhead's not going to die from a horrible, incurable disease.

 

 

What's the difference between a cancer victim and someone with AIDS?
You won't get sick from shagging a cancer victim.

 

 

How many cancer victims does it take to change a light bulb?
None: they're too weak to climb the ladder.

 

 

A cancer victim walks into a bar.  The bartender says "So, what'll you have?" 

The cancer victim replies, "A malignant tumour eating away my decrepit body."

 

 

What does chemotherapy have in common with its patients?
They both have half-lives.  (a little chemistry joke there.)

 

 

You know what's so great about cancer?   Nothing.

 

 

Did you hear that they finally found a cure for cancer?

It’s called Death!!!

 

 

 

I hope you liked the jokes, and didn’t find any of them too offensive.

 

 

What about cancer cartoons? Here’s a site designed by a fellow sufferer and it’s full of cancer cartoons.

Click on the cartoons, then ’cancer island’ at the top of the page, and then ’toons’.

Visit Buck Cash’s site to see his collection of cartoons

Two old baseball buddies with lung cancer were chatting on a park bench. Paul says, "I hope they have a baseball team in heaven."

"Me too", says Jack.

"Tell you what", says Paul, "If I die first, I'll give you a message about whether there is baseball in Heaven. If you die first, you can do the same for me."

A year later, Paul is dead and Jack is sitting on the park bench when he hears: "Jack, it's me, Paul. I have great news! Guess what. There really is a baseball team in heaven."

"Thank God", sighs Jack, "Now I can die in peace."

"I'm glad you feel that way," says Paul, "because you're pitching tomorrow!