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“If I can help save one or two people on this planet, that’s a good thing,” says Captain “Wild” Bill Wichrowski on The Deadliest Catch Season 20 preview. Wichrowski is speaking about the decision to go public with his cancer diagnosis. The Summer Bay skipper has prostate cancer, usually a very…

The ever-glamorous Christie Brinkley posted a decidedly unglamorous photo on social media — an image that showed her recovering from a procedure to remove skin cancer near her left eye. “The good news for me is we caught the basal cell Carcinoma early, she wrote on Instagram (see the post below)…

NBC News correspondent Antonia Hylton has revealed that she was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer, a neuroendocrine tumor. The symptoms manifested about two years ago, the 30-year-old Hylton said in a Today interview. She started having stomach issues. “It was easy for me to just write it…

Shannen Doherty says the breast cancer with which she was first diagnosed in 2015 has spread to her brain, and shared an emotional video describing her fear as she undergoes treatment. The 52-year-old actress best known for Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed wrote on her Instagram page that a January…

Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has tried to calm alarmed fans via Instagram following revelations that he’s been battling stage 3 blood cancer. The struggle was detailed in his upcoming memoir, "Did I Ever Tell You This?" The 75-year-old Neill was undergoing chemotherapy until he switched to a…

Sam Neill first noticed he had swollen glands while promoting Jurassic World Dominion last March. After consulting a physician, the actor was diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare form of blood cancer. His course of treatment began with chemotherapy, which did not work. Neill…

Riverdance star Michael Flatley is now at home recovering from surgery after a cancer diagnosis, his team announced Wednesday. “Dear friends, we have something personal to share, Michael Flatley has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer,” the Instagram statement read. “He has undergone…

Tennis Hall-of-Famer and broadcaster Chris Evert revealed today that she has stage 1C ovarian cancer. Evert, who is 67, was diagnosed last year after undergoing a preventative hysterectomy, she said. Cancer has not been detected elsewhere in her body, according to a piece she co-wrote with Chris McKendry on ESPN.com…

Arguably the greatest soccer player of all time, Pelé, was admitted to Sao Paulo’s Hospital Albert Einstein on Wednesday according to his doctors. It is the second time in the past few months the three-time World Cup winner has been admitted for treatment on a tumor in his colon. In September, doctors operated on the…

Multi-hyphenate Nick Cannon took a moment at the top of his eponymous syndicated talk show for a very personal and serious announcement: His 5-month-old son Zen died Monday. Cannon started the episode by showing the studio audience a photo of his youngest son and telling viewers the infant was born in June. The host…

The two top teams in college basketball met tonight as No. 1 Gonzaga faced No. 2 UCLA, but the highlight of the evening was legendary ESPN broadcaster Dick Vitale returning to call the game after battling two separate forms of cancer this year, with his latest diagnosis coming just last month. Before the game, Vitale…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being hospitalized after she underwent a non-surgical procedure. The court’s press office said that the justice was resting comfortably and expected to be released by the end of the week. “Justice Ginsburg underwent a minimally invasive non-surgical procedure today at…