BIG BROTHER’S star Jade Goody said she is anxiously facing a three-week wait to find out if she has bowel cancer. Mum of two boys, Jade said: “I am worried about bowel cancer but I have to wait three weeks for the test results. I’m young so, hopefully, everything will be OK. But it is [...]
In a message on his website, former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has announced that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Lesh revealed that he will undergo surgery in early December to have the cancer removed. “Since we’ve caught it very early, and it’s small and slow-growing, I fully expect to have a rapid [...]
‘America’s Sweetheart’ Julia Roberts has been alarmed ever since a mysterious mole showed up on the side of her right breast during a recent photo shoot. photographers spotted the blemish as they snapped the Pretty Woman star at a Hollywood tribute to George Clooney and now cancer experts are calling for the actress to get [...]
On October 23, seven-time Tour de France winner and testicular cancer survivor Lance Armstrong, with attend a day-long meeting in Lexington, Kentucky as a member of the President’s Cancer Panel to discuss the promotion of healthy lifestyles in reducing cancer risks. The President’s Cancer Panel was created by the National Cancer Act over thirty years [...]
The award-winning newsman died Tuesday of liver cancer in Norwalk Hospital less than three weeks before his induction into the Radio Hall of Fame. Glenn retired in February after 35 years with CBS.It was Glenn who anchored the January 28th, 1986, launch of the doomed shuttle Challenger and delivered an anguished commentary as the spacecraft [...]
Olympic Gold Medallist figure skater and breast cancer survivor Peggy Fleming spoke at a Surviving and Thriving luncheon sharing her breast cancer experience. Fleming told the audience of breast cancer survivors attending the luncheon that the breast cancer diagnosis was a shock considering her identity as an athlete was based on health. After the shock [...]
Last Monday, singer songwriter and breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show to help Ellen, whose mother is a breast cancer survivor, launch the show’s recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Six months ago, Crow was diagnosed with breast cancer, and is happy to say that during her last check-up she [...]
Breast cancer is personal for Nicole Kidman. At 17, her mother Janelle was diagnosed with breast cancer. As a celebrity spokesperson for Cancer Research UK Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Kidman helped launched this October’s All Join Together campaign by unveiling a giant pink ribbon on the Stardome at Madame Tussauds. Kidman shares, “As someone whose [...]
Actor Edward Laurence Albert, Godson of Sir Laurence Olivier died on Friday of lung cancer, he was 55. Edward appeared in 126 films and also had TV roles to his credit. Edward’s movie debut was in 1965′s The Fool Killer. Once he seriously decided to pursue acting he starred in a film called Butterflies are [...]
Darren Clarke, the professional golfer, lost his wife to breast cancer last month. Since July 21 he hasn’t played competitively in a single tournament. He took his time off golf to care for his cancer victim wife. After her wife passed away, Clarke has been trying to regroup himself and mourn the loss of her [...]
Ann Richards, who was the Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995, succumbed to esophageal cancer. She passed away at the age of 73. Earlier this year in March, she revealed that she was being treated for esophageal cancer. She was the second woman in history of Texas, to hold that position. Ann Richards seemed [...]
The sixties’ singer and former actress Marianne Faithfull, 59, has been diagnosed with breast cancer, her publicist said this Thursday. However, the doctors who diagnosed the disease in France, said that the disease was in its ‘earliest stages,’ a statement released in London said. ‘The disease has been quickly discovered by doctors in France,’ said [...]