Celebrities with Cancer
Are there any Celebrities with Cancer?
Do the rich and famous really get Cancer?
Cancer does not discriminate.
Many famous people have been diagnosed with Cancer.
Here is a list of some of them.
The following list is a compilation of those famous people and celebrities with cancer. Some had cancers or some may still be suffering from cancers. Some have even died from their cancers.
It is by no means belittling them but on the contrary, I wish to salute their bravery to fight against such a dreadful disease.
Also, by means of understanding that cancer does not have prejudice and can hit at the famous or rich as well as the common populace, we will then have a different stance and the courage to overcome it more positively.
We salute and honor these Celebrities with Cancer.
POLITICIANS (OR SPOUSES) - CELEBRITIES WITH CANCER
(If you know of other politicians or spouses that I should insert, send me a photo and a simple writeup.)
| POLITICIANS (OR SPOUSES) | NAME - POSITION - TYPE OF CANCER |
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Tony Snow - US White House Press Secretary - colon cancer |
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John Kerry - US Senator - prostate cancer |
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Julia Thorne - 1st wife of John Kerry - bladder cancer |
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Teresa Heinz - 2nd wife of John Kerry - breast cancer |
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Chris Dodd - US Senator - prostate cancer |
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Elizabeth Edwards - wife of US Senator John Edwards - breast cancer |
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Gen. Colin Powell - US Secretary of State - prostate cancer |
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Nelson Mandela - President of South Africa - prostate cancer |
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Endon Mahmood - wife of Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi - breast cancer |
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Ronald Reagan - US President - skin and colon cancer |
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Nancy Reagan, wife of Ronald Reagan - breast cancer |
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Maureen Reagan - daughter of Ronald Reagan - skin cancer |
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Dwight Eisenhower - US President - skin cancer |
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George Bush Sr - US President - skin cancer |
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John McCain - US Senator - skin cancer |
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Emperor Akihito - Emperor of Japan - prostate cancer |
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Rudy Giuliani - New York mayor - prostate cancer |
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Francois Mitterand - President of France - prostate cancer |
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Princess Michael of Kent - British Royalty - skin cancer |
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Debbie Shultz - US Congresswoman - breast cancer |
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William Rehnquist - US Supreme Court Judge - throat cancer |
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg - US Supreme Court Judge - pancreatic cancer |
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Betty Ford, wife of US President Gerald Ford - breast cancer |
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Eva Peron - wife of Argentina President Juan Peron - cervical cancer |
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Corazon Aquino - Philippine President - colon cancer |
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Ivica Racan - Croatian Prime Minister - kidney cancer |
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King Hussein - Jordanian King - Lymphoma |
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - wife of US President John Kennedy - Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma |
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Zhou En Lai - 1st Premier of People's Republic of China - bladder cancer |
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Ted Kennedy - US Senator - brain cancer |
FILM STARS, MEDIA STARS, SINGERS - CELEBRITIES WITH CANCER
(If you know of other film or media stars, or entertainers that I should insert, send me a photo and a simple writeup.)
| FILM STARS, MEDIA STARS, SINGERS | NAME - STARRED IN - TYPE OF CANCER |
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Patrick Swayze - "Dirty Dancing" - pancreatic cancer |
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Farrah Fawcett - "Charlie's Angels" - colorectal cancer |
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Kathryn Joosten - "Desperate Housewives" - lung cancer |
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Peter Jennings - newscaster - lung cancer |
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Lynn Redgrave - Broadway actress - breast cancer |
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Charlton Heston - "The Ten Commandments" - prostate cancer |
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Sheryl Crow - singer - breast cancer |
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Kylie Minogue - singer - breast cancer |
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Cokie Roberts - journalist - breast cancer |
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Aretha Franklin - soul singer - pancreatic cancer |
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Anastacia - singer - breast cancer |
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Sonique - singer - breast cancer |
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Michael Douglas - "Wall Street" - throat cancer |
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Christina Applegate - "Samantha Who?" - breast cancer |
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Jade Goody - "Big Brother" - cervical cancer |
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Marianne Faithfull - singer - breast cancer |
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Dennis Hopper - 'Easy Rider" - prostate cancer |
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Melanie Griffith - "Working Girl" - skin cancer |
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Bob Marley - songwriter - skin cancer |
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Sharon Osbourne - "The Osbournes" - colon cancer |
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Elizabeth Taylor - "Cleopatra" - skin cancer |
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Tom Green - comedian - testicular cancer |
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Sean Connery - "James Bond" - throat cancer |
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Roger Moore - "James Bond" - skin cancer |
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Rod Stewart - singer - thyroid cancer |
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Audrey Hepburn - "My Fair Lady" - appendiceal cancer |
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Olivia Newton John - singer - breast cancer |
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Suzanne Somers - "Three's a Company" - breast cancer |
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Kate Jackson - "Charlie's Angels" - breast cancer |
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Maggie Smith - "Harry Potter series" - breast cancer |
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Maura Tierney - "ER" - breast cancer |
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Carly Simon - singer - breast cancer |
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Edie Falco - "Sopranos" - breast cancer |
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Cybill Shepherd - "The Last Picture Show" - skin cancer |
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Hoda Kotb - newscaster - breast cancer |
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Anderson Cooper - CNN newscaster - skin cancer |
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Jacklyn Smith - "Charlie's Angels" - breast cancer |
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Kim Novak - "Vertigo" - breast cancer |
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Jennifer Saunders - "Absolutely Fabulous" - breast cancer |
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Andy Whitfield - "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" - non-Hodgkin lymphoma |
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Michael C. Hall - "Dexter" - Hodgkin's lymphoma |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber - composer - prostate cancer |
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Ethan Zohn - "Survivor" - Hodgkin's lymphoma |
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Robert De Niro - "The Godfather II" - prostate cancer |
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Richard Roundtree - "Shaft" - breast cancer |
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Harry Belafonte - singer - prostate cancer |
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Fran Drescher - "The Nanny" - uterine cancer |
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Rue McClanahan - "Golden Girl" - breast cancer |
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Melissa Etheridge - singer - breast cancer |
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Charlie Watts - Rolling Stone drummer - throat cancer |
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Cynthia Nixon - "Sex and the City" - breast cancer |
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Frances Yip - singer - breast cancer |
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Paul Newman - "The Sting" - lung cancer |
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Jason Robards - "All the President's Men" - lung cancer |
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John Wayne - "The Green Berets" - lung cancer |
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Johnny Carson - talk show host - skin cancer |
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Dennis Weaver - "Gunsmoke" - prostate cancer |
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Greg Morris - "Mission Impossible" - lung cancer |
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Bette Davis - "Jezebel" - breast cancer |
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Anita Mui - Madonna of Asia - cervical cancer |
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Lydia Shum - Hong Kong Actress - liver cancer |
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John Forsythe - "Dynasty" - colon cancer |
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Shirley Temple Black - "Heidi" - breast cancer |
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Chen Jin Lang - Singapore singer - colon cancer |
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Jack Benny - comedian - lung cancer |
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Yul Brynner - "The King and I" - lung cancer |
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Nat "King" Cole - musician - lung cancer |
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Betty Grable - "How to marry a millionaire" - lung cancer |
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Dean Martin - "Everybody loves somebody" - lung cancer |
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Roddy McDowell - "Planet of the Apes" - lung cancer |
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Robert Mitchum - "Nevada" - lung cancer |
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Steve McQueen -"Papillon" - Mesothelioma |
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Roy Scheider - "Jaws" - Multiple Myeloma |
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Michael Landon - "Little House on the Prairie" - pancreatic cancer |
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Luciano Pavarotti - Singer - pancreatic cancer |
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Bob Denver - "Gilligan's Island" - throat cancer |
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Eartha Kitt - "Santa Baby" - colon cancer |
FAMOUS AND RICH PEOPLE - CELEBRITIES WITH CANCER
(If you know of other famous, rich or influential people that I should insert, send me a photo and a simple writeup.)
| FAMOUS AND RICH PEOPLE | NAME - POSITION - TYPE OF CANCER |
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Steve Jobs - Apple CEO - pancreatic cancer |
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Paul Allen - Microsoft co-founder - Hodgkin's lymphoma |
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Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods - prostate cancer |
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Dana Reeve, wife of Christopher Reeve, lung cancer |
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Rosalind Yeoh, wife of Francis Yeoh Sock Ping - businessman - breast cancer |
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Betsey Johnson - fashion designer - breast cancer |
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Martina Navratilova - "tennis" - breast cancer |
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Ted Schroeder - "tennis" - colon cancer |
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Joe Torre - New York Yankees manager - prostate cancer |
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Lance Armstrong - cyclist - testicular cancer |
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Arnold Palmer - golf - prostate cancer |
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Isaac Asimov - writer - thyroid cancer |
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Sigmund Freud - psychologist - mouth cancer |
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Louis Farakhan - activist - prostate cancer |
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General Norman Schwarzkopf - US General - prostate cancer |
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Elizabeth Choy - Singapore war time heroine - pancreatic cancer |
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Michael Crichton - author - throat cancer |
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Yves Saint Laurent - fashion designer - brain cancer |
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Jerry Zucker - billionaire - brain cancer |
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Charlie Bell - McDonald's CEO - colon cancer |
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Charles Schultz - Peanuts cartoonist - colon cancer |
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Joe DiMaggio - baseball - lung cancer |
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Walt Disney - Disneyland - lung cancer |
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Jiddu Krishnamurti - Indian philosopher - pancreatic cancer |
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Randy Pausch - "The Last Lecture" - pancreatic cancer |
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Aaron Spelling - TV producer - throat cancer |
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Sydney Pollack - film director - stomach cancer |
FAMOUS CHRISTIANS - CELEBRITIES WITH CANCER
(If you know of other famous Christians that I should insert, send me a photo and a simple writeup.)
The inclusion of Christians in this place does not imply that leaders of other faiths are immune to cancer or its sufferings. Most of the time, the cancer sufferings of other faith leaders are kept non-transparent, and we have hidden knowledge of them.
| FAMOUS CHRISTIANS | NAME - POSITION - TYPE OF CANCER |
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Tammy Faye Messner - Televangelist PTL Club - colon cancer |
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Selwyn Hughes - Everyday with Jesus - prostate cancer |
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Edwin Cole - Christian Men's Network - bone marrow cancer |
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Jamie Buckingham - Charisma magazine - liver cancer |
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Gwen, wife of David Wilkerson - New York Times Square Church - cancer |
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Ruth Heflin - "gold dust revival" - breast cancer |
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Frances Hunter - How to heal the sick - breast cancer |
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Kay Warren, wife of Rick Warren - "Purpose Driven Life" - breast cancer |
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Dodie Osteen - wife of John Osteen - liver cancer |
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Betty Price - wife of Fred Price - pelvic cancer |
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Mack Timberlake - international pastor - throat cancer |
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Joyce Meyers - author, teacher - breast cancer |
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John Piper - pastor, author - prostate cancer |
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John Wimber - pastor Vineyard churches - cancer |
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Peggy Capp - wife of Charles Capp - "Tongue a Creative Force" - cancer |
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Billy Graham - evangelist - prostate cancer |
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Billy Joe Daugherty - Victory Christian Center - lymphoma |
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Daisy Osborn - wife of TL Osborn - cancer |
Note:
If there is enough interest in this, I can build a Special Memorial Page for Anyone who wants to remember brave men and women who battles with Cancer.
This can apply to close friends or related people who have "gone home" or even those who are still around. What a great way to honor them and appreciate their fight, especially when they are still in this world to see these badges of appreciation for them.
These people are our very own "Celebrities with Cancer".
Let me know, if you want me to build these Memorial Pages!
Further Readings:
Another list of Celebrities with Cancer found Here (open in new window)
Wikipedia list of famous breast cancer patients according to occupation.
Wikipedia list of famous brain tumor patients found Here.
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