26Terry Hitchcock
After losing his wife from breast cancer, a 57-year-old man named Terry Hitchcock with a prior heart attack attempted to run 75 marathons in 75 consecutive days for single parent awareness. He succeeded.
27. There are "cancer villages" in China, where residents are hundreds of times more susceptible to cancer due to pollution.
28. The rate of lung cancer is lower in Japan than in the US despite a higher percentage of smokers in Japan. This is known as Japanese Smoking paradox
29. There are more skin cancer cases attributed to tanning beds than lung cancer cases attributed to smoking.
30. After the death of his wife from breast cancer, actor Rick Moranis began an 18-year-long hiatus from acting to raise his children.
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31Billy Owen
A man named Billy Owen lost an eye and half his face to cancer, and used it to start a career as a zombie actor.
32. C.S. Lewis (British novelist) entered a civil marriage with a woman named Joy Davidman so she could avoid deportation. Then, after she developed terminal cancer, they eventually fell in love and re-married while she was in the hospital. They were married for 3 years before she passed away.
33. Bob Marley could have halted the spread of his cancer but refused to have his toe amputated due to religious reasons.
34. Paul McCartney elected not to tell his wife Linda, as her cancer progressed, that she was dying, thinking that doing so wouldn't do any good. She continued riding her horse until the day before her death.
35. George Wallace was the famed segregationist governor of Alabama, who got his wife (Lurleen Wallace) elected to subvert term limits. To do so, he hid her cancer diagnosis from her, lest treatment adversely affect her campaign. The first female Governor of Alabama died less than 200 days into her term.
