Ever wondered which famous people have suffered mouth cancer? No? Well I did. I came up with this list but are there any others you can suggest to add to it? There is an American comedian I was reading about when I was diagnosed some years ago but I couldn't remember his name. My list is:

Sigmund Freud - thirty-three operations for cancer of the jaw and oral cavity which he endured during the sixteen remaining years of his life.

Babe Ruth - diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma refers to a malignant growth that arises from epithelium, which tends to infiltrate and metastasize to other organs.

Ulysses S. Grant - Grant was diagnosed with a carcinoma of the right tonsillar pillar in early June 1884. The cancer was at the base of the tongue and was described as a malignant squamous epithelioma, which was a scaly, invasive, metastasizing growth. At the onset of his cancer, surgical and technological movements were not advanced enough to effectively control the carcinoma.

Colleen Zenk Pinter - Emmy nominated actress (Barbara Ryan on CBS’s As the World Turns)

Jack Klugman – (Quincy, M.E.) couldn’t speak for more than three years after his cancer treatments. Videoclip: Jack Klugman on early detection of oral cancer

Jack Wild – Actor from OLIVER – the artful dodger.
Burl Ives – singer

Sir Bobby Robson – football manager

Grant Achatz - superstar chef

Hope no one is offended by this by the way. I just thought it might be interesting and maybe help people to realise others, even very famous ones, have suffered the same illness.

Tony

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Dr Vinod K Joshi,

Interesting! There's also John Diamond, writer for The Times, who passed away at age 47 of throat cancer.

Don't know if you read it, but I started a thread in General Chat a few weeks ago titled "Babe Ruth Didn't Die of Throat Cancer!" (I use an overabundance of exclamation points.)

Mimi

No sorry I hadn't seen that. John Diamond of course - I read his book when I was ill. Very brave man to record his illnessas he did. I was devastated at the time when I heard he had died. Nice man.
Tony

Hi all!

Amanda Blake--Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke

Eddie Van Halen

Charlie Watts (throat cancer)

Burl Ives

Peter Tork of the Monkees.

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I didn't know Eddie Van Halen had had tongue cancer until I read it here.
Had a quick look in a few search engines and websites and it seems that he believes it was holding a metal plectrum in his mouth and not the well documented chain smoking and heavy drinking that gave him the cancer .
He thinks he's found a cure for cancer too. Can I have lots of whatever he's on please . Hagg.