Colon cancer is a major cause of mortality all over the world. Colon cancer is more common in older people over the first youth and is more rarely in those under 40. Colon cancer affects an impressive number of people every year. Like in the case of many other diseases, the illness makes no exception. So, many famous people have also been diagnosed with colon cancer, regardless of their status, culture, or education level. Actually even Pope John Paul II had suffered from colon cancer.

Some of the celebrities with colon cancer are Sharon Osbourne, Ronald Reagan, and Tony Snow. The Spanish tenor Placido Domingo at 69 years old was operated because of colon cancer in New York. The disease not only affects celebrities, but also members of their families. In 1998, Katie Couric lost her husband, Jay Monahan to colon cancer. After Jay died, she started a campaign against this disease. Using her own fame, she tried to raise the awareness level of everybody in the world about colon cancer symptoms and the importance of the detection in its early stages. The publicity generated by her increased the awareness of the diseases and the screening done to discover it. That is way celebrities that are involved in different campaigns can raise the people general conscience about colon cancer and can make campaigns with a great impact all over the world.



Here are some of the celebrities who developed colon cancer.

Harold Pinter, a Nobel Prize winning playwright
Denis D'Amour, guitar player for the band Voivod
Darryl Strawberry, former Baseball Player
Claude Debussy, a French composer
Rod Roddy, previous announcer for "The Price Is Right". He died at age 66, in two years after the disease diagnosis
Dick Hickox, former Basketball Player
Jean Pelletier, the mayor of Quebec City
Sharon Osbourne, British reality TV star, Ozzie Osbourne. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in July 2002, at the age of 49. She is one of the colon cancer disease patients who has manage to be cured.



Some other celebrities with colon cancer are:

Corazon Aquino, the former president of Philippine
Charlie Bell, McDonald's CEO
John Forsythe, American Actor
Ted Corbitt, American Distance Runner
Tony Snow, the White House Press Secretary
Joel Siegel, movie critic and host of "Good Morning America". Siegel died at the age of 64. He was diagnosed ten years after diagnosis
Robin Toner, a New York Times Reporter
Ron Fineman, a TV Journalist
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, judge at the Supreme Court of Justice
Ted Schroeder, Tennis Champion
Marilyn Martinez , Standup Comedian
Walter Matthau, American actor He died in 2009 at the age of  79
Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress. She died in September 2007
Damu Smith, Peace and Environmental Activist
Lee Young – Former Jazz Drummer