Well-known Stars With Cancer

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It has been named the killer C and several other names. It is a disease that can change the faith of those faithful and diminish the small hope of those hopeless. It is a disease that doesn't discriminate and can care less for the person's status in life. It is a disease that the world is trying to understand. It is cancer. To put it in simple words, cancer is an disease that starts from a tumor. anyone can be diagnosed with cancer. Even the famous and spectacular celebs go through the pains of cancer. Here are several of very talented and popular celebrities that were diagnosed with cancer. Each one personalities came out in the open and gave their best while battling the ferocious disease.

Christina Applegate is a very talented American actress that played the role of Kelly Bundy on the old TV series: Married With Children and currently as Samantha Newly on the show, Samantha Who. In August, 2008, reports that Applegate have breast cancer are released over all mediums. Christina's publicist confirmed the news that Applegate is diagnosed with breast cancer. The nice thing with the diagnosis was that it was caught in ...
... the begining stage. The problem was found on just one of her breasts but the star underwent a double mastectomy operation within the same month. The actresses mom is a cancer survivor Which means her cancer is heavily on the hereditary side, she thought to take action upon the fatal threat as soon as she could. The actress is now doing well and will be given reconstructive surgery very shorty.

Hailed as one of the best female pop singers, Sheryl Crow is also a songwriter, political activist and has nine Grammy Awards under her belt. The singer was found out she had breast cancer in 2006. As with Christina Applegate, the disease was caught in it's early stages. Crow underwent a lumpectomy, which is a surgery to remove the cancer in the breast. The singer also went through radiation treatment for around two months after the surgery. Sheryl has been free of cancer since the operation and is amazingly on her second year as a cancer survivor.

Christened as Francine Joy Drescher, Fran is widely recognized worldwide as Fran Fine from her TV show, The Nanny. In 2000, The actress was rushed to the hospital because of uterine cancer, a kind of cancer where the cancer attacks the uterus of an individual. Her cancer, thankfully, was still in its beginning phase when the procedure to take out the cancer was made thus she didn't go through chemotherapy or radiation treatment. After several years of being a cancer survivor, the popular star began an organization to help others who are afflicted with cancer. The name of the organization is Cancer Schmancer Movement.

The dashing and famous Patrick Swayze... Guys envied his scene with Demi Moore in the movie, Ghost, and girls went limp with his dancing abilities in Dirty Dancing. No one can utter that they don't know Patrick Swayze. He is now battling pancreatic cancer. He has been given chemotherapy and a operation to take out soiled areas of his stomach. His battle is far from being over but he's still out there winning the fight. He recently gave a moving talk at the Stand Up To Cancer 2008 event.

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