With the announcement that the star of “Jurassic Park” has been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer, further celebrities who have battled the disease are discussed.
Star of “Jurassic Park”: “Death would be inconvenient for me.”
– discloses that their cancer is in stage 3
Cancer does not discriminate against its victims and can strike at any time or place.
Take a look at some of the celebrities who have been diagnosed with cancer during the course of their careers, beginning with this legendary actor…
Ben Stiller
In 2016, when Ben Stiller was 48, he was told he had prostate cancer. He started talking about it in public two years later. He now speaks out about testing for the disease and other issues tied to it.
Richard Roundtree
Richard Roundtree, another star, was told he had breast cancer in the early 1990s, when such news was often kept secret. Five years later, when he had been cancer-free for five years, he told a lot of people about his diagnosis. He now works to raise knowledge about breast cancer in men.
He tells a story about a flight attendant who thanked him for helping her husband get better. After reading a story about Roundtree, her husband decided to get a lump in his breast checked out. The lump was cancerous, and her husband got cancer treatment that worked.
Betsy Johnson
Betsey Johnson, a clothing designer, was told she had breast cancer in 1999. She didn’t tell anyone but her daughter for a whole year, until she was done with treatment. “My biggest fear,” she told Bustle in 2017, “was that people would think I was going to die. I wouldn’t be able to pay my bills. That I don’t plan to make. That I won’t be feeling good. It was all over.” Now, Johnson makes things that help raise money for breast cancer causes, just like Stiller and Roundtree did.
Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon, an actor and political organizer, didn’t tell anyone about her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in 2006. “I didn’t want to make it public while I was going through it,” she told Nightline in 2008. “I didn’t want people like paparazzi at the hospital, etc.” (Paparazzi wouldn’t have been following me, but I totally understand.)
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge played at the Grammys in 2005 while she was getting chemotherapy for breast cancer. She was bald. She told Shape in 2009, “I’ve always been honest.” “So I asked myself, ‘Why should I hide the truth?’ Ich hatte Krebs. I went through chemo. My hair fell out. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman posts pictures on Twitter when he goes to the dermatologist to have moles removed. He has had six cases of basal cell carcinoma and wants to remember people to use sunscreen.
Joan Lunden
In June 2014, Joan Lunden was told she had breast cancer. In the fall of that year, she posed naked for the cover of People magazine. She told Today in 2017 that she posed because she knew there were women who would refuse chemo because they were afraid of losing their hair. “That surprises me, because what else can you do?”
Michael C. Hall
Michael C. Hall was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma while shooting season 4 of Dexter in 2009. He didn’t tell anyone about it right away, and he told the Guardian in 2014 that he had thought about keeping it a secret for the rest of his life. But he had a problem that many people with chemo do: his eyebrows. This is why I picked a wig with bangs.
In 2010, when he went to award shows, the star knew that he would look “off” without eyebrows, even if he wore a wig that looked like his own hair. So, he told everyone and went to the shows with a knit cap on his bald head. “I’m glad I did,” he said, “because I didn’t realize how much that would give other people hope or strength.” (At the time, I had just finished chemotherapy, so seeing Hall with his cap on TV at the Golden Globes really moved me.)
Kathy Bates
The way people think about cancer has changed because of what happened to Kathy Bates. In 2017, the star told ETOnline that when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2003, “even my gynecologist, whose husband worked in the business, told me not to tell anyone because of the stigma in Hollywood.” But seeing Etheridge perform bald really moved her, and when Bates was told she had breast cancer in 2012, she chose to tell everyone right away.
Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes hesitated to tell people in 2011 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and she did so with her usual sense of humor. “I didn’t know if I should talk about it or not,” she said later that year on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
“How much stuff could I have? I am both black and a woman. I can’t be the face of every cause.” She ended up letting people know about the news on the talk show.
Sam Neill, star of “Jurassic Park,” disclosed his stage 3 blood cancer diagnosis in an interview with The Guardian, which was published online on March 17, 2023.
In the spring of 2022, after he developed swollen glands while marketing “Jurassic World Dominion,” he was eventually given a diagnosis of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.
Later on, he was treated with chemotherapy, and during a sabbatical from his acting career, he authored a memoir in which he detailed his life, profession, and fight against cancer. “I never once entertained the thought of penning a book.
“But as I went on and kept writing, I realized that it was actually sort of giving me a reason to live…so it was a lifesaver really, because I couldn’t have gone through that with nothing to do,” he said, adding that he is “just pleased to be alive.”
“after the initial chemotherapy treatment, he tried did not work. He is no longer suffering from cancer as a result of a new chemotherapy treatment, which he will continue to take on a monthly basis for the remainder of his life. “I don’t think dying would bother me, but it would be inconvenient.
So, you know, I’d really enjoy an additional decade or two of life. Because we have planted olive trees and cypresses, as well as constructed all of these beautiful terraces, I hope to still be alive when everything has reached its full potential.
And then there are the adorable children who are my grandchildren. I want to see them get huge. But what about those who are dying? I couldn’t care less, “he told the newspaper The Guardian while he was at his house in New Zealand.
