Diagnosed with bone cancer which resulted in the amputation of his leg, the 18-year-old kinesiology major set out to cross Canada on a grueling run called the Marathon of Hope to raise funding and awareness about cancer.

Diagnosed with cancer in 1918, his stomach, appendix and part of his intestine were removed.

Diagnosed with lung cancer, Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home on Manasota Key in Englewood, Florida, after a battle with the disease.

Diagnosed and labeled with brain damage, at that early age she was placed in a structured nursery school with what she considers to have been good teachers.

Diagnosed with two brain tumors, Fieger underwent surgery and radiosurgery and returned to performing.

Diagnosed with Graves ' disease sometime in the early 1940s, Malley refused treatment.

Diagnosed with HIV in 1985, Davis kept his condition a secret until shortly before his death at age 41, on September 8, 1991 in Los Angeles.

Diagnosed with a brain tumor in mid 2005 after experiencing strong headaches, he underwent surgery in August.

Diagnosed with morphine addiction and nearly stranded, he moved to Berlin in 1899.

Diagnosed with skin cancer in 1987, doctors only gave him a few months to live but he fought to overcome the disease with experimental drugs, a careful high-fiber diet, and his sheer determination.

Diagnosed with about a year until dementia renders him dysfunctional and with only a 1 % chance of escaping this fate, Spider increases his vendetta against Callahan, ultimately exposing his evil deeds and bringing the President down.

Diagnosed with the disease in 2000, he initially underwent chemotherapy, but later had part of his tongue and both vocal cords removed in July 2004.

Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1995, Flood was initially given a 90-95 percent chance of survival.

Diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer in January 2008, Swayze told Barbara Walters a year later that he was " kicking it ".

Diagnosed with " nervous exhaustion ," he would spend the next seven weeks in the facility and miss the remainder of the season.

Diagnosed with retinal cancer at the age of two, American Ben Underwood had his eyes removed at the age of three.

* Mental health problems — Diagnosed with ADHD, Clinical Depression, or other mental illness, experienced by over 90 % of the subjects

Diagnosed with cataracts, he had surgery in the offseason and returned with perhaps his best season, winning the batting title and collecting 21 home runs and 92 RBI with a career-best 38 doubles ( 3rd in the NL ).

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990, Vance underwent a single mastectomy and incorporated the experience into a solo skit, " The Radical Girl's Guide to Radical Mastectomy.

Diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1980, Grahame refused to accept the diagnosis and travelled to England to work in a play, eventually settling in the Aigburth area of Liverpool.

Diagnosed with cancer in 1900, Saint-Gaudens decided to live at his Federal house with barn-studio set in the handsome gardens he had made, where he and his family had been spending summers since 1885, in Cornish, New Hampshire – though not in retirement.

Diagnosed with cancer of the stomach and kidney in 1997, Alencar succumbed to the disease in 2011.

Diagnosed with lung cancer, he died in Toronto on May 15, 1974.

Diagnosed with breast cancer during her fourth month in Cabinet, Swarbrick became the first Canadian public figure to be open about her battle in an effort to end the culture of silence about this then highly stigmatizing disease.

Diagnosed with lung cancer as a result of exposure to Agent Orange during the war, he became a participant and active advocate for the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, and spoke at the California State Assembly for a similar law proposed in that state.

Diagnosed with cancer, the 72-year-old Toler was so ill during the filming of Dangerous Money ( 1946 ) and Shadows over Chinatown ( 1946, released 1947 ) that he could hardly walk.

Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in March 2003, Atkins died of the cancer several weeks later on April 19, 2003 Las Vegas, Nevada.

* c. 1980 ( aged 55 ): Diagnosed with breast cancer, and given about 18 months to live.

Diagnosed with a debilitating brain disease, Julien took her own life in late September 1998 in Montreal.

Diagnosed as consumptive ; given only a short time to live, he was allowed to spend his remaining days at his leisure, drawing and painting.

Diagnosed as a schizophrenic by psychiatrists in Switzerland, Ali Ahmeti was judged incapable for labor and thus obtained 3, 000. 00 Swiss francs per month from the invalidity insurance in Lucerne due to his paranoid and schizophrenic tendencies.

Diagnosed as a cerebral hemorrhage, Coverdell underwent surgery at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta on July 17, 2000.

Diagnosed HIV + at age 27, Average made the decision to commit the rest of his life to art, and to challenge himself to live by his art.

Diagnosed at age eleven, his family could not afford the treatment, but that cost was covered by Barcelona in exchange for Messi joining the team's youth department.

Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.

Why, I once used this machine to cure a woman with 97 pounds of cancer in her body ''.

In such diseases as cancer, tuberculosis, and heart disease, early diagnosis and treatment are so vital that the waste of time by the patient with Doctor Fraud's cure-all gadget can prove fatal.

When authorities convicted him of practicing medicine without a license ( he got off with a suspended sentence of three years because of his advanced age of 77 ), one of his victims was not around to testify: He was dead of cancer.

Recently, John Sherrill was stricken with one of the deadliest forms of cancer.

McCullough and Farah also state that the risk of acquiring cancer rises almost five times for users of alcohol-containing mouthwash who neither smoke nor drink ( with a higher rate of increase for those who do ).

Tree planting is sometimes combined with awareness campaigns of the fight against cancer: Kom Op Tegen Kanker.

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Yet our state is similar to a cancer cell — with its messianism and expansionism, its totalitarian suppression of dissent, the authoritarian structure of power, with a total absence of public control in the most important decisions in domestic and foreign policy, a closed society that does not inform its citizens of anything substantial, closed to the outside world, without freedom of travel or the exchange of information.

The albinistic are generally as healthy as the rest of the population ( but see related disorders below ), with growth and development occurring as normal, and albinism by itself does not cause mortality, although the lack of pigment blocking ultraviolet radiation increases the risk of skin cancer and other problems.

Immunotherapy with BCG prevents recurrence in up to 67 % of cases of superficial bladder cancer.

These procedures are preferred by some breast cancer patients because they result in an abdominoplasty ( tummy tuck ), and allow the breast to be reconstructed with one's own tissues instead of a foreign implant.

Herceptin, for example, was the first drug approved for use with a matching diagnostic test and is used to treat breast cancer in women whose cancer cells express the protein HER2.

For example, many people with cancer not only inherit the disease gene for the disorder, but may have also failed to inherit specific tumor suppressor genes.

He tinformed Olga Carlisle that, at the end of The Blind Beauty, he wished to depict " the birth of an enlightened and affluent middle class, open to occidental influences, progressive, intelligent, artistic ..." However, Pasternak fell ill with terminal lung cancer before he could complete the first play of the trilogy.

In early 1991, Bixby was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent treatment.

It is also involved in loss of cellular homeostasis associated with early events in cancer onset and in prion diseases as well as in the origin of new species ( speciation ).

In the case of metastatic breast cancer, a Cochrane Review published in 2008 maintained that the current body of evidence is not sufficient to rule out the possibility that psychological interventions may cause harm to women with this advanced neoplasm.

Despite rumors to the contrary, there is no scientific evidence linking cycling with testicular cancer.

Carcinogens may increase the risk of cancer by altering cellular metabolism or damaging DNA directly in cells, which interferes with biological processes, and induces the uncontrolled, malignant division, ultimately leading to the formation of tumors.

In an attempt to compete with EastEnders, issue-led storylines were introduced such as Toyah Battersby's rape, Roy and Hayley Cropper abducting their foster child, Sarah Platt's Internet chat room abduction and Alma Halliwell's death of cervical cancer.

Months later on April 27, 1977, Charles Spinky Alston died after a long bout with cancer.

It has been shown in trials that the ingestion of β-carotene at about 30 mg / day ( 10 times the Reference Daily Intake ) increases the rate of lung and prostate cancer development in smokers and people with a history of asbestos exposure.