Celebrities Who Survived Cancer

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“Cancer does not respect fame and fortune”....

We all know that as long as you are breathing and still doing some activities in your life, you have the tendency of having a cancer. Cancer is a disease that can strike and kill anyone on this earth. Anyone can be a victim; it attacks rich or poor people, a politician, a president, a professor, a scientist as well as the celebrities.

Today, in our generation, cancer cases are continuously rising. However, survival cases have been also increasing. And we want to know how these cancer victims survived a killer disease, did they try undergoing some alternative cancer treatments? Or did they just focus on doing typical cancer treatments or maybe they have done both. This is the list of famous people who have been diagnosed with cancer and survived.

1. Kate Jackson - who can forget Sabrina Duncan of Charlie’s Angels 1970s television series? She is one of the most renowned characters of early Charlie’s Angels’ series. She was a two-time breast cancer survivor; the first time she was diagnosed with cancer was in 1987 after the end of Scarecrow ...
... and Mrs. King TV series. She had successfully come back on TV and shoot for Baby Boom; however, the series lasted for only one season because the audience did not like it. In 1989, her breast cancer came back while she was starring in a series called Lover boy. She successfully survived her two cancer incidents and that’s one of the reasons she was featured and became a cover of People magazine in May 1992. In her feature, she shared how life changing and inspiring her experiences were.

2. Rod Stewart - Hot Legs, Sailing and I Don’t Want to talk about it, are three of the greatest hits that made Rod Stewart one of the most famous singing sensation. However, as we all know cancer doesn’t respect any one. It doesn’t care how famous you are or how great you are; Rod found out that he had a malignant thyroid gland in his throat while doing a routine checkup in 2000. He, for the meantime, stopped singing to undergo a surgery for his throat. The cancer was removed surgically and Rod eventually came back to his first love which is singing after his operation. He informed everyone that he felt a lot better after that operation.

3. Lance Armstrong - Tour de France is what made Lance Armstrong famous and rule over the world of cycling. He is one of the most famous cyclists, winning Tour de France seven times! It was after his seventh consecutive win that he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Testicular cancer is a cancer developed in the testicles which is a part of male reproductive system. He was diagnosed to have 3rd stage cancer in 1996, and the cancer cells have spread all over his lungs and brain. Although everyone knows that it is impossible for him to survive, he underwent two surgeries aimed to remove his testicular cancer and another to remove the one in his brain. He eventually survived and educated himself about the disease and this eventually inspired him to establish a foundation in 2008 that was named “Lance Armstrong Foundation and Demand Media”.

These people are certainly just like us; they have the same body parts just like us. The point is, nobody is exempted from having cancer. No famous person can escape as soon as it strikes. Get inspiration from these people, they never lost hope, they chose to live that’s why God gave them a second chance at living. If you are diagnosed with cancer now, use that as an inspiration to other people.

You might want to try doing alternative cancer treatments. Whatever you may think that is helpful and will help you, do it. And use your life story as an inspiration to other people. You might not be as famous as these celebrities, but surviving this disease can make you even famous than before, because you have inspired and used the lessons of your life to help others.