Famous Brain Tumor Patients and Survivors
This comes from the National Brain Tumor Organization website:
Each year approximately 190,000 people in the United States and 10,000 people in Canada will be diagnosed with a primary or metastatic brain tumor. Breakdown:
- An estimated 43,800 new cases of primary malignant and non-malignant tumors***
- An estimated 150,000 cases are brain metastases (this is an approximation as the number of metastatic brain tumors is estimated to be 20% - 40% of all cancers).
Brain tumor patients, including those with certain “benign” brain tumors, have poorer survival rates than breast cancer patients.
Metastatic brain tumors (cancer that spreads from other parts of the body to the brain) occur at some point in 10 to 15% of persons with cancer and are the most common type of brain tumor.
In the United States, the overall incidence of all primary brain tumors is more than 14 per 100,000 people.***
• Lyle Alzado, 43, Football Player
• Lance Armstrong, Seven-time Tour de France Champion
• Lee Atwater, 40, Chairman, Republican National Committee
• James Batten, 59, CEO, Knight Ridder Newspapers
• Becky Bisoulis, 56, Fashion Designer
• Johnnie Cochran, 68, Defense attorney
• Dan Duva, 44, Boxing Promoter
• John Galsworthy, 66, Nobel Prize-winning Novelist
• George Gershwin, 36, Composer
• Scott Hamilton, Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion
• George Harrison, 58, Lead guitarist, The Beatles
• Dick Howser, 50, Manager, Kansas City Royals
• Reginald Lewis, 53, CEO, TLC Beatrice
• Bob Marley, 36, Reggae Singer
• Frank Edward “Tug” McGraw, 59, Professional Baseball Player
• Megan O’Connell, 30, International Model
• Slim Pickens, 64, Actor
• Dan Quisenberry, 45, Pitcher, Kansas City Royals
• Lou Rawls, 72, Singer
• Pete Rozelle, 70, NFL Commissioner
• Wilma Rudolph, 54, Olympic Track Gold Medalist
• Mark Ruffalo, Actor
• Gene Siskel, 53, Film Critic
• Deke Slayton, 47, Astronaut
• Dawn Steele, 51, First Female Hollywood Movie Studio Executive
• Annette Strauss, 74, Former Dallas Mayor
• Robert Swanson, 52, Biotechnology Pioneer & Founder of Genentech
• Mike Synar, 45, U.S. Congressman
• Elizabeth Taylor, Actress
• Michael Walsh, 51, CEO, Tenneco
Filed under: Brain tumor statistics, Famous people with brain tumors | Tagged: brain tumor, meningioma
I was diagnosed with brain tumor ten years ago & you talk about God.If it had not been for God I wouldn’t have made it.At the time of discovery I believed and still believe that I was already healed.I knew and know that when Jesus did for me on the cross that He had already taken this on for me and I wouldn’t have to suffer through it.I accepted my healing and refuse to let go of it.Many Christians were praying for me and HOPING for a good outcome when I already knew the outcome.I knew they meant well yet I also knew that if I listened to them it would have planted a seed of doubt in my brain.I didn’t have any doubts as I already knew.They all thought I was in denial or something.I thank God everyday for allowing me to go through that for Him.After all,look at what He did for me…Patsy…I don’t ask why.I just know!