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,Famous Head & Neck Cancer Patients -

H&N Cancers include:

Oral Cavity & Pharynx; Tongue; Mouth, Lip & Jaw; Throat; Salivary Glands; SCC of Tonsils; Thyroid; Nasal; Esophagus cancer.

https://www.healthcentral.com/slideshow/famous-people-with-head-neck-cancer?ap=105&pb=msn-msn-home Published June 6, 2018

Artists
Kenneth Price, Oral Cancer DOD 2012

Baseball Players
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, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2008 

Curt Flood, Throat Cancer DOD 1997
Tony Gwynn, Oral Cancer DOD 2014
Dick Kryhoski, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2007
Roger Maris, Thyroid Cancer DOD 1985
Heine Manush, Throat Cancer DOD 1971
Babe Ruth, Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cancer DOD 1948
Scott Sanderson, Laryngeal Cancer DOD 2019

Bill Tuttle, Oral Cancer DOD 1998

Basketball Players/Coaches
Michael Cooper, Tongue Cancer
Dave Joerger, H&N Cancer

George Karl, Tonsil Cancer
Donnie Walsh, Tongue Cancer

Dick Hickox, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2006

Corporate
Jamie Diamond, Throat Cancer

Criminals
Sonny Barger, Throat Cancer DOD 2022
Rudy Bladel, Thyroid Cancer DOD 2006
John Wilkes Booth, H&N Cancer DOD 1865

Frank Costello, Throat Cancer DOD 1973
Robert Durst, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2022

John Gotti, H&N Cancer DOD 2002
Phil Spector, Throat Cancer DOD 2021


Designers
Diane von Furstenberg, Tongue Cancer

Bill Blass, Throat Cancer DOD 2002


Directors
Antonia Bird, Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer DOD 2013
Jonathan Demme, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2017
William Hanna, Throat Cancer DOD 2001


Doctors
Dr. Ed Rosenbaum, Throat Cancer DOD 2009
Dr. Sigmund Freud, Cancer of the Jaw DOD 1939

Entertainers
Catherine Bell, Thyroid Cancer
Brooke Burke-Charvet, Thyroid Cancer
Sean Connery, H&N Cancer
Blythe Danner, Oral Cancer

Michael Douglas, H&N Cancer
Hill Harper, Thyroid Cancer
Arte Johnson, Thyroid Cancer
Val Kilmer, Throat Cancer
Tom Mahoney (husband of actress Marcia Cross), Throat Cancer
Tarek El Moussa, Thyroid Cancer

Deborah Norville, Thyroid Cancer
Colleen Zenk Pinter, Oral Cancer
Joe Piscopo, Thyroid Cancer
Stanley Tucci, Tongue Cancer


Rene Angelil, Throat Cancer DOD 2016
Humphrey Bogart, Esophageal Cancer DOD 1957
Yul Brynner, H&N Cancer DOD 1985
Beth Chapman, Throat Cancer DOD 2019
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
Ben Gazarra, Throat Cancer DOD 2012
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
Steven Levy, Nose Cancer DOD 2019
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 
Frank Miller, Laryngeal Cancer DOD 2017
Anthony Minghella, Tonsil Cancer DOD 2008
Erin Moran, Throat Cancer DOD 2017
Heiner Muller, Throat Cancer DOD 1995
Mary Murphy, Thyroid Cancer DOD 2011
Bruce Paltrow, H&N Cancer DOD 2001
Micheal Piller, H&N Cancer DOD 2005
Anthony Quinn, Throat Cancer DOD 2001
Angela "Big Ang" Raiola, Throat Cancer DOD 2016
Anne Ramsey, Throat Cancer DOD 1988
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
John Thaw, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2002
William Thomas, H&N Cancer DOD 1980
Peter Tork, Oral Cancer DOD 2019

Lana Turner, Throat Cancer DOD 1995
Deborah Walley, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2001

Jack Wild, Oral Cancer DOD 2005
Ed Winn, Throat Cancer DOD 1966


Football Players/Coaches/Media
Michael Irvin, Throat Cancer
Jim Kelly, Oral Cancer
Chris Mortensen, Throat Cancer
Rick Volk, H&N 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


Golfers
Hubert Green, Oral Cancer DOD 2018

Hockey Players
Charley Conacher, Throat Cancer DOD 1967
Paul Shmyr, Throat Cancer DOD 2004


Lawyers
Robert Kardashian, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2003
Gary Griffin (Kathy Griffin - comedian's brother), Esophageal Cancer DOD 2014


Musicians
John Berry, Throat Cancer
Bruce Dickinson, Tongue Cancer

Tom Hamilton, Throat Cancer
Elton John, Throat Cancer

Tom Jones, Throat Cancer
Dave Mustaine, Throat Cancer

Rikki Rockett, Tongue Cancer
Rod Stewart, Thyroid Cancer

Jason White, Tonsil Cancer

Hank Ballard, Throat Cancer DOD 2003
Susan Buffett, Oral Cancer DOD 2004
Phil Chevron, H&N Cancer DOD 2013
Daniel Dion, Throat & Tongue Cancer 2016
Les Gray, Throat Cancer DOD 2004

Frederick "Dennis" Greene, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2015
Nanci Griffith, Thyroid Cancer DOD 2021
George Harrison, Throat Cancer DOD 2001

Levon Helm, Throat Cancer DOD 2012
Dan Hicks, Throat Cancer DOD 2016

Judy Holliday, Throat Cancer DOD 1965
Burl Ives, Oral Cancer DOD 1995
Ian Fraser Kilmister aka Lemmy, Brain & Neck Cancer DOD 2015
Barbara McNair, Throat Cancer DOD 2007
George Michael, H&N Cancer DOD 2016

Roger Miller, Throat Cancer DOD 1992
Eddie Money, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2019
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
John Prine, Throat Cancer DOD 2020
Giacomo Puccini, Throat Cancer DOD 1924 

Richard Rodgers, H&N Cancer DOD 1979
Art Stamper, Throat Cancer DOD 2005

Peter Tork, Tongue Cancer DOD 2019
Eddie Van Halen, Oral Cancer DOD 2020
Charlie Watt, Throat Cancer DOD 2021
Mary Wells, Cancer of the Larynx DOD 1992

Adam Yauch, Salivary Gland Cancer DOD 2012

Olympians
Wilma Rudolph, Throat Cancer DOD 1994

Politicians/Patriots
Michael Caputo, Throat Cancer
Jared Kushner, Thyroid Cancer

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

Publishers
Bob Guccione, H&N Cancer DOD 2010

Race Car Drivers/Announcers
Bobby Hamilton, H&N Cancer DOD 2007
Steve Byrnes, H&N Cancer DOD 2015

Religious Leaders
Rev Robert H Schuller, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2015

Sailors
Neville Crichton, Throat Cancer

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


Tennis Players
Martina Navratilova, Throat Cancer

Maria Bueno, Mouth Cancer DOD 2018

Wrestlers
Bobby Heenan, Throat Cancer DOD 2017
Takanohana Toshiaki, Oral Cancer DOD 2005

Steve Williams, H&N Cancer DOD 2009

Writers
Jeanne Zelasko, Thyroid Cancer

June Callwood, Throat Cancer DOD 2007
Bill Cameron, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2005
Michael Crichton, MD, Throat Cancer DOD 2008

John Diamond, Oral Cancer DOD 2001
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, Cancer of the Tongue DOD 1963
Christopher Hitchens, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2011
Glen A. Larson, Esophageal Cancer DOD 2014
Steven Leacock, Throat Cancer DOD 1944
Henning Mankell, Neck Cancer DOD 2015
Kevin Sinclair, Throat Cancer DOD 2007



For more information:

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/esophaguscancer/detailedguide/esophagus-cancer-key-statistics
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/oralcavityandoropharyngealcancer/detailedguide/oral-cavity-and-oropharyngeal-cancer-key-statistics


Mayo Clinic 2015 estimates 200,000 Americans will be diagnosed with Oral Cancer

http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/look-out-for-these-signs-of-oral-and-throat-cancer/ar-BBAuFBI?li=BBnb7Kz April 29, 2017Article written and published after the death of Erin Moran (actress - Happy Days)

American Cancer Society estimates 2015:
16,980 New Esophageal Cancer Cases/ 15,590 Deaths
39,500 New Oral/Oropharngeal Cancer Cases/ 7,500 Deaths

PubMed.gov J Laryngol Otol. 2007 Jun;121(6):511-20. Epub 2006 Nov 2. : A historical view of head and neck cancer in celebrities.


NOTE: We began compiling this list in 2003.   Sadly, this list will continue to grow until cures for all H&N Cancers & HPV are successfully found and available.


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