Stand Up To Cancer

Roger Ebert
After receiving hundreds of comments for a blog post he wrote in 2008 about rice cookers, famed film critic Roger Ebert is now publishing a cookbook dedicated to the subject. For the past eight years, Ebert has battled thyroid and salivary gland cancers and had surgery four years ago, leaving him without the ability to eat or speak. "To be sure, health problems have prevented me from eating," Ebert writes in the book. "That did not discourage my cooking. It became an exercise more pure, freed of biological compulsion."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCGPgljeM3WrvZ368oQFsfkfs-HgD9GL793O0

Bayler Teal
7-year-old Bayler Teal lost his two-year battle with neuroblastoma last Thursday. A committed fan of the South Carolina Gamecocks, Teal inspired the ballplayers with his passion for baseball and his courage to fight cancer. "I don't think the team could begin to understand how much it means,'' his father Rob Teal said of their support of his son. "This is such a tough time for all of us, and it is uplifting to know how much they cared about Bayler."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/baseball/mlb/wires/06/29/2060.ap.bbc.cws.notebook.1006/

Shonda Schilling
In 2001, Schonda Schilling was diagnosed with stage 2 malignant melanoma, underwent five surgeries and suffered more than 25 scars on her back, arms, legs and chest. A former "sun worshipper," Schilling is now cancer-free and has traveled all over the United States promoting sun-safety awareness. She urges people to never sunburn, cover up, seek shade, conduct monthly skin exams and use sunscreen with at least SPF 15.
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/dedham/2010/06/cancer-survivor_schilling_in_d.html

Susan Snow
Four years ago, Susan Snow was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and was given two months to live. Beating the odds, she opened the Orchard Barn Wellness Centre on her own property last week in hopes of helping others who face a cancer diagnosis. "One of the things you do when your life is threatened is make promises," she said. "My promise was to help others with cancer."
http://www.crestonvalleyadvance.ca/article/20100628/CRESTON0101/306289993/0/CRESTON11/cancer-survivor-shares-experience-at-wellness-centre