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Does anyone have a list of celebrity survivors they can share with me?

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fightcancer77
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survivors

if you go to wikipedia.org and type in a specific cancer a list will come up at the bottom of the screen :)

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June 10, 2007 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

rflvolunteer
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Celebrity Survivors

Here are some public forum lists that I have found in the past:

Here are some links... Hope they help:

http://www.tiffanysmelanomafoundation.org/FamousPeople.htm

- skin cancer

http://felix.unife.it/Root/d-Medicine/d-Oncology/d-Special-oncology/d-Prostate-cancer/b-Prostate-cancer-famous

- prostate cancer

http://www.uthscsa.edu/mission/fall94/fifties.htm

http://www.pinkribbon.com/celebrities.htm

- Celebrities with Breast Cancer

http://www.carolsutton.net/famous_women_died_brcancer.html

- people with yellow dots next to their names are famous breast cancer victims...

A huge list of survivors and those who have died from cancer can be found at: http://www.phatnav.com/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_famous_cancer_patients )

Here are some specific people (and what cancer if we had the info:

Humphrey Bogart died at 57 from cancer

http://www.uthscsa.edu/mission/fall94/fifties.htm

Nat King Cole, 1965, 47 yrs old

Marie Curie, Leukemia, 1934

Joe Dimaggio, lung cancer, @ 84 yrs old,

Sigmund Freud, cancer, 1939, see:

Terry Fox – Canadian runner who ran to raise cancer awareness

George Harrison

Michael Landon

Jack Lemmon - gallbladder cancer

Linda McCartney

The Marlboro Man (is this one real???) Yes! See: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marlboro.htm

Here are some famous cancer survivors who are battling it out!

Robert DeNiro – diagnosed with prostate cancer October 2003

Fran Drescher – Survived uterine cancer following surgery in 2000

Tom Green (Charlie’s Angels, Road Trip) – Lost a testicle to cancer in

2000; recovered

Lynn Redgrave – Conquered breast cancer in 2003

Cybill Shepherd – Underwent skin cancer surgery in 2002

Elizabeth Taylor – Underwent surgery for skin cancer in 2002

Gene Wilder (Blazing Saddles, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) –

beat lymphoma in 2001

Suzanne Somers (breast cancer),

Sharon Osbourne (colon cancer)

Rod Stewart (throat cancer). - http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=332895 )

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June 6, 2007 - 2:59am login or register to post comments