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This category is for people who died of some form of cancer. Please respect people's medical privacy . Information about people's health must always be supported by high-quality, non-self-published reliable sources .
Sportspeople who died during their careers are covered in lists by sport, and in the case of motorsports by location. List of American football players who died during their careers List of association footballers who died after on-field incidents
The National Cancer Institute estimated 22,070 new cases of primary brain cancer and 12,920 deaths due to the illness in the United States in 2009. The age-adjusted incidence rate is 6.4 per 100,000 per year, and the death rate is 4.3 per 100,000 per year. The lifetime risk of developing brain cancer for someone born today is 0.60%.
In the first half of this decade, 89 rock stars have died as a result of cancer, surpassing the 79 cancer-related deaths in the 2000s. Comparatively, there have only been 12 overdose-related ...
world-famous astrologer, columnist for Vogue and Woman's Day; TV commentator; died at age 59 Lynne Stewart (1939–2017) born Lynne Irene Feltham, American lawyer and activist; died at age 77 diagnosed in 2005 at age 66 Jane Tomlinson (1964–2007) born Jane Emily Goward, British cancer fundraiser; died at age 43
Bobby Moore (1941–1993; aged 51), England football captain and 1966 World Cup winner; the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK is committed to beating bowel cancer in his memory. [ 9 ] Brion Gysin (1916–1986; aged 70), British-Canadian writer and painter , was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 1974 and underwent a colostomy ; died from ...
This is a list of countries by cancer frequency, as measured by the number of new cancer cases per 100,000 population among countries, based on the 2018 GLOBOCAN statistics and including all cancer types (some earlier statistics excluded non-melanoma skin cancer).
Here are the famous people who died in 2025. Musicians Marianne Faithfull and Peter Yarrow, as well as director David Lynch, have passed away. So did Aubrey Plaza's husband, filmmaker Jeff Baena ...