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Kent Cass said:

Cool

Really is a great picture, and so good of him to be part of it. When the famous people get H&N it hits the news, and I've wondered if any of them take the time to venture to our forum...Michael Douglas, NBA coach George Karl, and now word has it actor Val Kilmer has it in the throat, and has a trachea tube. Maybe they're too important to converse with us little people, but obviously not Jim Kelly. Seems like I've heard of a few other important people who've had, and several who have died over the past couple years. And in history, there's Babe Ruth, President Ulysses Grant and Sigmund Freud...You know, people are just people, and in the eyes of the Lord I reckon they're not any more important than we are. Again, great picture.

A list of the famous H&N?

 
Catherine Bell, Thyroid Cancer
Sean Connery, H&N Cancer
Michael Douglas, H&N Cancer
Ben Gazarra, Throat Cancer
Arte Johnson, Thyroid Cancer
Val Kilmer, Throat Cancer
Mary Murphy, Thyroid Cancer
Joe Piscopo, Thyroid Cancer
Peter Tork, Oral Cancer

Humphrey Bogart, Esophageal Cancer DOD 1957
Yul Brynner, H&N Cancer DOD 1985
Graham Chapman, Throat Cancer DOD 1989
Joseph Cotton. Cancer of the Larynx DOD 1994
Richard Crenna, Laryngeal Cancer DOD 2003
Sammy Davis Jr, Throat Cancer DOD 1990
Richard Dawson, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2012
Bob Denver, H&N Cancer DOD 2005
Brian Donlevy, Throat Cancer DOD 1972
Mike Evans, Throat Cancer DOD 2006
Francis Farmer, Throat Cancer DOD 1970
Kevin Hagen, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2005
Larry Hagman, Throat Cancer DOD 2012
Bruce Hyde, Throat Cancer DOD 2015
Alan King, Oral Cancer DOD 2004
Jack Klugman, Oral Cancer DOD 2012
Alan Landers, Cancer of the Larynx DOD 2009
Makoto "Mako" Iwamatsu, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2006
Louis Malle, Thyroid Cancer DOD 1995
Gordon McRae, H&N Cancer DOD 1986
Russell Means, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2012 
Anthony Minghella, Tonsil Cancer DOD 2008
Micheal Piller, H&N Cancer DOD 2005
Anthony Quinn, Throat Cancer DOD 2001
Aldo Ray, Throat Cancer DOD 1991
Kasey Rogers, Throat Cancer DOD 2006
Dan Rowan, Thyroid Cancer DOD 1987
Ann Sheridan, Esophageal Cancer DOD 1967
Andy Sidaris, Throat Cancer DOD 2007
Ron Silver, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2009
Jack Soo, Esophageal Cancer DOD 1979 
Aaron Spelling, Oral Cancer DOD 2006 
Ed Sullivan, Esophageal Cancer DOD 1974
William Thomas, H&N Cancer DOD 1980 
Lana Turner, Throat Cancer DOD 1995
Deborah Walley, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2001
Jack Wild, Oral Cancer DOD 2005
Ed Winn, Throat Cancer DOD 1966

Brett Butler, H&N Cancer
Jerry DiPoto, Thyroid Cancer
Curt Schilling, H&N Cancer

Ed Bailey, Throat Cancer DOD 2007 
Hank Bauer, Throat Cancer DOD 2007
Bruce DalCanton, Esophgeal Cancer DOD 2008 
Curt Flood, Throat Cancer DOD 1997
Tony Gwynn, Oral Cancer DOD 2014
**** Kryhoski, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2007
Roger Maris, Thyroid Cancer DOD 1985 
Heine Manush, Throat Cancer DOD 1971
Babe Ruth, Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cancer DOD 1948
Bill Tuttle, Oral Cancer DOD 1998

Jim Kelly, Oral Cancer

Greg Mohns, Throat Cancer DOD 2012
Jackie Parker, Throat Cancer DOD 2006
Jim Thorpe, Lip Cancer DOD 1953
Glenn (Pop) Warner, Throat Cancer DOD 1954

Bruce Dickinson, Tongue Cancer
Nanci Griffith, Thyroid Cancer
Elton John, Throat Cancer
Tom Jones, Throat Cancer 
George Michael, H&N Cancer
John Prine, Throat Cancer
Rod Stewart, Thyroid Cancer 
Eddie Van Halen, Oral Cancer 
Charlie Watts, Throat Cancer
Jason White, Tonsil Cancer

Hank Ballard, Throat Cancer DOD 2003
Susan Buffett, Oral Cancer DOD 2004
Phil Chevron, H&N Cancer DOD 2013
Les Gray, Throat Cancer DOD 2004
Frederick "Dennis" Greene, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2015
George Harrison, Throat Cancer DOD 2001
Levon Helm, Throat Cancer DOD 2012
Judy Holliday, Throat Cancer DOD 1965 
Burl Ives, Oral Cancer DOD 1995 
Barbara McNair, Throat Cancer DOD 2007
Roger Miller, Throat Cancer DOD 1992
Karl Mueller, Throat Cancer DOD 2005
Sam Myers, Oral Cancer DOD 2006
Buck Owens, Mouth Cancer DOD 2006
Carl Perkins, Throat Cancer DOD 1998
Darrell Wayne Perry, Throat Cancer DOD 2005
Giacomo Puccini, Throat Cancer DOD 1924 
Richard Rodgers, H&N Cancer DOD 1979
Art Stamper, Throat Cancer DOD 2005
Mary Wells, Cancer of the Larynx DOD 1992
Adam Yauch, Salivary Gland Cancer DOD 2012

Theodore G. Bilbo, Oral Cancer DOD 1947
Grover Cleveland, H&N Cancer DOD 1908 
Ulysses S. Grant, H&N Cancer DOD 1884
Lyndon B Johnson, Throat Cancer DOD 1973
Tom Lantos, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2008 
Pat Nixon, Mouth Cancer DOD 1993 
Chief Justice Wm Rehnquist Thyroid Cancer DOD 2004
Ann Richards, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2006
W. Laird Stabler Jr., Oral Cancer DOD 2008
Carl Stokes, Esophageal Cancer DOD 1996
James (Jim) C. Wright Jr., Tongue Cancer DOD 2015

Wilma Rudolph, Throat Cancer DOD 1994

Robert H Goddard, Throat Cancer DOD 1945
Robert Oppenheimer, Throat Cancer DOD 1967

Roger Ebert, Salivary Gland & Thyroid Cancer DOD 2013
Clay Felker, Oral Cancer DOD 2007
Marilyn French, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2009
Quincy Howe, Cancer of the Larynx DOD 1977 
Evan Hunter, Cancer of the Larynx DOD 2005 
Aldous Huxley,  DOD 1963 

Rev Robert H Schuller, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2015

kcass

There is an interesting book about Grover Cleveland and the "secret" surgery he had due to the tumor he had. For many years it was denied and the white house covered up his illness because at that time they didn't want a sitting President to appear to be weak or ill. The surgeon and everyone involved was sworn to secrecy and they actually did the operation on a yacht! One journalist found out and attempted to publish but they categorically denied it and shut down his career. The title is "The President is a Sick Man". I read it two summers ago before cancer became a part of our lives.

Barbara