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Celeb Cancer Survivors

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Nov 10, 2025 5:04 PM
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Sharon Osbourne

The America's Got Talent judge was diagnosed with colon cancer while shooting The Osbournes in 2002 and used the opportunity to stress the importance of regular screenings while attacking the #@%! with chemotherapy. She was declared cancer-free the following year.


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Robert De Niro

The Oscar winner took prostate cancer down, down to Chinatown, in 2003, and has been in about 400 movies since then.


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Robin Roberts

The Good Morning America cohost proudly flaunted her smooth scalp while undergoing chemotherapy to treat breast cancer in 2007.


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Lance Armstrong

The champion cyclist battled back from stage-four testicular cancer before winning seven straight Tour de France titles.


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Melissa Etheridge

The Grammy and Oscar winner became an inspiring activist after a lumpectomy and chemotherapy cleared her of breast cancer in 2005.


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Julia Sweeney

The former Saturday Night Live standout mined her breast cancer battle for comedic material that turned into God Said Ha!, her successful one-woman show that eventually went to Broadway.


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Cynthia Nixon

The Sex and the City star was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, and after surgery and radiation treatments, she was given the clear.


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Samantha Harris

Harris underwent a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer.


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Sarah Paulson

The American Horror Story star sports a scar on her back where doctors successfully removed a melanoma.


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Giuliana Rancic

The E! News host battled breast cancer and came out cancer-free following treatment that included a double lumpectomy and undergoing a double mastectomy.


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Jennifer Grey

Her Dancing With the Stars physical turned up a cancerous nodule in her neck, which doctors were able to remove in its entirety before it spread.


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Ethan Zohn

After winning Survivor: Africa in 2002, Zohn fought a much tougher battle against Hodgkin's disease in 2009. And after chemo and a stem cell transplant, he was ready to take on The Amazing Race this year with Jenna Morasca.


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Kathy Bates

The Harry's Law star revealed in 2009 that she was five-years clear of ovarian cancer. 

She also announced a breast cancer diagnosis in 2012 that prompted a double mastectomy and removal of 19 lymph nodes. She has since been cancer-free.


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Rod Stewart

The standards-crooning hitmaker sounds none the worse for wear after licking thyroid cancer in 2000.


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Wanda Sykes

The comedian revealed on Ellen that she underwent a double mastectomy after doctors diagnosed breast cancer in early 2011—when she was in for a breast-reduction consult.


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George Hamilton

The tanning poster-gentleman has added sunscreen to his regimen after going under the knife for skin cancer removal.


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Fran Drescher

The Nanny star wrote Cancer Schmancer after she stopped uterine cancer in its tracks in 2000 thanks to early detection. The actress and healthcare advocate has since founded the Cancer Schmancer Movement, dedicated to stopping all cancers at stage one.


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Tom Green

The Tom Green Cancer Special helped the MTV star kick testicular cancer in the balls.


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Mary Murphy

The joyously loud So You Think You Can Dance judge underwent surgery to remove a tumor from her thyroid in December 2010 and was declared cancer-free a couple months later.


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Eric Dane

In 2008, the Grey's Anatomy hunk's chapped lips turned out to be a form of skin cancer caused by sun damage. McSteamy said he didn't eat much for awhile after having the malignant tissue frozen off with liquid nitrogen, but he's been cancer-free and, obviously, looking good.


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Jane Fonda

Doctors were able to remove her entire tumor after the two-time Oscar winner was diagnosed with noninvasive breast cancer in 2010.


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Dave Gahan

The Depeche Mode frontman had a cancerous tumor removed from his bladder in 2009.


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Jennifer Saunders

The Absolutely Fabulous star's breast cancer is in remission following a lumpectomy, chemo and radiation.


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Bryant Gumbel

The Real Sports host underwent surgery for remove a malignant tumor from his lung in 2009 and is looking fit as a five-iron.


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