cancer battle

Starz network says "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" star Andy Whitfield is leaving the show to battle a recurrence of cancer.

The wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards is a cancer survivor.

The widow of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy told Oprah Winfrey in an interview broadcast Wednesday that even as her husband knew he was dying of brain cancer he had been "in training" to make sure he had enough strength to attend President Barack Obama's inauguration.

Patrick Swayze, whose good looks and sympathetic performances in such films as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" made him a romantic idol to millions, has died, his publicist told CNN affiliate KTLA.

After a long battle with cancer, dramatically documented in her own documentary on her struggle, Farrah Fawcett passed away today at the age of 62.

The news that one of America's TV icons is suffering from cancer brought sadness.

Farrah Fawcett has been hospitalized in the latest stage of her battle against cancer, a producer working with the actress said Monday.