Cancer
In early 1998, Prine was diagnosed with squamous cell cancer on the right side of his neck. He had surgery to remove a substantial amount of diseased tissue. This was followed by six weeks of radiation therapy. The surgery altered his vocals, and has added a gravelly tone to his voice.
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Famous quotes containing the word cancer:
“Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is the growth of madness denied.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“The same people who tell us that smoking doesn’t cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn’t cause smoking.”
—Ellen Goodman (b. 1941)
“The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)