After Quote by Gail Sheehy

My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

— Hill Harper

Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day.…

— Sue Perkins

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically…

— Bill de Blasio

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as…

— Lynn Redgrave

In 1971, my mother died of cancer and within a year my first husband Alec Ross died, also from cancer.

— Sheila Hancock

In 2001, my father finally succumbed to the bone cancer that had tortured him for seven years. His last weeks were a terrible, black…

— Peter Baynham

Passed in 99, cancer all up in his liver. Difference¦ since we last spoke, your son's a lil' richer.

— Rick Ross

My father passed away at, like, 87.

— Joan Allen

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way.

— Kevin Connolly

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a…

— Alicia Coppola

At the age of 22, I began to consider my own mortality. It had never occurred to me that, with all of the progress…

— Suleika Jaouad

My father was 91 when he passed away of natural causes, and my mother died aged 88. She had a heart condition and had…

— Engelbert Humperdinck