Breast cancer does not discriminate. Singers, actresses and ordinary women were hit by the disease which makes millions of victims annually. Do not think that the stars have a different treatment. Even those, like any other diagnosed women with breast cancer, use mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and also they maybe victims of malpractice like many other women.

Some celebrities have hidden for months or even for years this diagnosis. About others, probably we will never know that they have suffered from breast cancer. But the most famous women chose to make public the suffering in the hope that their life story will help other women. All stars diagnosed with breast cancer, talk about how important it is to examine yourself and to make an annual mammogram if you are over 35 years.

Breast cancer celebrity survivors:

1.Shirley Temple – famous for the roles played in childhood, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 44 and she underwent a mastectomy. She is the first star who had the courage to make public her suffering. She spoke about this for the first time to the U.S. public television. Shirley Temple had hoped that this way she will encourage women to perform regular checks and to face the disease.
2.Just few weeks after becoming First Lady of America, Betty Ford checked in to a hospital to perform a mastectomy.

3.The singer, Sheryl Crow found that she have breast cancer in 2006, after a routine mammography. The rock star, immediately postponed every concert and underwent surgery, followed by seven weeks of radiotherapy. Because the tumors (present in both breasts) were detected early, Sheryl Crow managed to escape from chemotherapy. In 2007, Sheryl Crow, who didn’t have any history of breast cancer in her family, has signed a petition to the American Congress requesting to allocate fundings for research on environmental factors on breast cancer.
4.Cynthia Nixon, the actress who played Miranda in “Sex and the City”, did not want to make public the diagnosis of breast cancer that doctors gave her in 2006, but she changed her mind after the tumor was extirpated and she followed radiotherapy sessions.
5.Kylie Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005 at the age of 36. Node that she had passed unnoticed in the first investigations and it was discovered only after she requested a second set of tests. After a year of treatment which included a partial mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, Kylie is a survivor of the battle with breast cancer.



6.In 2008, when she first heard about the awful diagnosis, the actress Cristina Applegate turned to a radical solution: bilateral mastectomy. Although the cancer was identified in only one breast, she hopes that in this way she will reduce the risk of spreading. Actress mother is a survivor of the battle with cancer too.
7.Olivia Newton John went to the doctor after discovering one node. The first mammogram did not reveal any anomalies, but she didn’t feel well and repeated the investigations. She resorted to mastectomy and then breast reconstruction.
8.The actress, Suzanne Somers has found that she has cancer at the age of 54. The tumor was extirpated and she followed the radiotherapy, but she refused chemotherapy and resorted to a natural treatment.
9.The American pop star, Anastacia, was 34 years old when she was diagnosed. After a partial mastectomy and after six weeks of radiotherapy, she was declared healthy.

Those are only 9 names of the breast cancer celebrity survivors, but like I said above there certainly are more out there.