Celebrities who passed from cancer
Maybe it hasn't affected you personally yet, but let's look at a few names you probably know that cancer took away from us....
Jan - Cervical Cancer: 60's Singer Little Eva ("Locomotion")
Feb - Galbladder/Bile Duct: Farrah Fawcett, Ernie Harwell, Dennis Hopper, Bob Marley, Jackie Kennedy, Bea Arthur, Casey Stengel
March - Colorectal, Multiple Myeloma, Kidney: Raymond Burr, Audrey Hepburn, Chadwick Boseman, Milton Berle, Colin Powell, and Peter Boyle, just to name a few
April - Testicular, Esophageal, Head/Neck: Brian Piccolo, Sammy Davis Jr, Richard Dawson, Humphrey Bogart, Anne Ramsey, President Grant, Singer Mary Wells, Burl Ives
May - Melanoma, Brain, Bladder: Burgess Meredith, Baseball HOF Nellie Fox, Ted Kennedy, NFL Films' Steve Sabol, Singer James Ingram, Telly Savalas, Singer Andy Williams, MLB Player Ron Santo, "Wizard of Oz" star Ray Bolger
July - Bone: Carl Sagan, Little Richard, Ed McMahon, "Get Smart" star Don Adams, Walmart Founder Sam Walton
Sept - Pediatric, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Ovarian, Prostate, Thyroid: Craig Sager, Etta James, Bob Feller, Allan Sheppard, Microsoft Founder Paul Allen, Ingrid Bergman, Gene Autry, Charles Lindbergh, Gilda Radner, Corretta Scott King, Merv Griffin, Bud Abbot, Gary Cooper, Langston Hughes, Johnny Ramone
Oct - Breast, Liver: Kelly Preston, Bette, Davis, Hattie McDaniel, Linda McCartney,Dusty Springfield, Bee Gee's member Robin Gibb, Sir Alec Guiness, Joe Frazier, Truman Capote
Nov - Pancreatic, Lung, Stomach: Alan Rickman, Patrick Swayze, Michael Landon, Jack Benny, Luciano Pavarotti, Sally Ride, Donna Reed, Paul Newman, Walt Disney, George Harrison, Dean Martin, Vincent Price, Donna Summer, John Wayne, "Mr." Fred Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Neville Chamberlain