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Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to news reports. However, the 73-year-old, who is leading the investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball players, is expected to make a full recovery, since the cancer is small, localized and was caught early enough. 
Robin Roberts is recovering nicely from her breast cancer surgery last Friday. She says she feels quite sore but believes that much of her success came from the many thoughts and prayers from fans everywhere.
ABC's Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts is at home resting after a successful surgery for breast cancer. Pathology reports will take some time to pocess, but when more information is available, the public will be updated, says a Good Morning America spokesperson.Continue reading Breast cancer surgery a success for ABC's Robin Roberts
ABCs Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts has heart. You can read all about it in her article titled A Heart in the Right Place in the July 2007 issue of Ladies' Home Journal -- and her book From the Heart. She writes about her job, about how she was never the most brilliant person to work alongside Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer but how she tends to put herself in the position for things to happen. Continue reading ABC news anchor Robin Roberts has heart in the right place
Robin Roberts of Good Morning America has shared some deeply personal news with readers and viewers alike: she has cancer. While preparing for a tribute show for her colleague and friend, Joel Seigel, the hostess discovered she had a lump in her breast. 
I was privileged to be able to interview Tom Batiuk himself, the creator of Funky Winkerbean, both about his own experiences with cancer and also his strip. I have received many many comments about the post I did regarding Lisa's cancer story in Funky Winkerbean, and I have addressed the concerns of the commenters to Mr. Batiuk, and he has responded for us here. Continue reading Survivor Spotlight: Tom Batiuk, Creator of Funky Winkerbean
June passed away in April, she was 82. She was one of Canada's most celebrated authors and social advocates. She helped the homeless, dealt with issues of racism and injustice. She did much volunteer work.
In 2004, June was diagnosed with inoperable cancer and refused to undergo treatments.
I came across a last interview with her that I thought was very moving. She talks about her life, her marriage, and the fact that her cancer is terminal.
What an amazing woman.
Jaclyn Smith, one of the original stars of Charlie's Angels, speaks out about Farrah Fawcett's second round of cancer. Smith told Entertainment Tonight, "She's gonna get through it. She's getting well right now." 
Luciano Pavarotti, famed tenor, continues to live with pancreatic cancer and is currently recording a new collection of classical religious music. He also continues to teach a select group of students every day according to an article from the AP.
The influential leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, has recently been diagnosed with cancer of the large intestine and liver, and is in hospital in Athens receiving treatment. The cancers in his body do not appear to be related, meaning that one has not spread to the other.
Most people in Canada have heard of Belinda Stronach, the young, pretty female politician who rose to fame and famously switched from one opposing political party to the other at the height of her career (getting caught up in a tabloid frenzy over her love life along the way), only to quit politics altogether in April. Where I'm from--a notoriously conservative area--there's a lot of anger towards her, though that has been overshadowed by the revelation this week that she's been privately battling breast cancer for the past few months. 
Ed Friendly, television producer and thoroughbred horse owner, helped create the hits Little House on the Prairie and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In has died from cancer.
The show Laugh-In, that he co-created, won several Emmys. Ed served as an infantry captain in World War II. His jobs included advertising, radio and later television director, director of sales for ABC, contract producer at CBS and he eventually became NBC's vice president of special programs. Looks like he had all the major networks covered!
Friendly is survived by his second wife, a daughter, son, and three grandchildren.
In November, we told you about Leroy Sievers and how his sense of hope was restored after the tumors in his lungs shrunk. His cancer went in to hiding for a while, only to re-emerge with a vengence. He's got tumors on his spine and his ribs, plus remnants of the tumors on his lungs to boot. He's been through it all before but he's not taking it well this time, because he finally felt like he was starting to live a normal life again.
It's pretty difficult to be part of the blogging world and not keep up Dooce, one of the Intenet's biggest blogebrities. So maybe you know this already but she's just been diagnosed with skin cancer -- again. Her struggle with cancer, like the rest of her life over the past few years, was documented on her ever-popular blog and I imagine will continue to be and she tackles the issue again. 
Yes, Farrah Fawcett's cancer has returned, just three months after she was given the all-clear following treatment for rectal cancer. But not all of what is appearing in the media is true, and Fawcett now finds herself fighting for both her life and the truth.
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