Famous people diagnosed with colorectal cancer
* Lynn Faulds Wood, former BBC Watchdog presenter, survived advanced bowel cancer and founded the charities Beating Bowel Cancer and Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign. [55]
* Tony Snow died July 12, 2008 at the age of 53. [4]
* Ruth Bader Ginsburg
* Tammy Faye Messner died July 20, 2007
* Audrey Hepburn died January 20, 1993 [5]
* H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer
* Harold Wilson [6]
* Pope John Paul II [7]
* Ronald Reagan [8]
* Elizabeth Montgomery, American Actress (died at age 62; died 8 weeks after being diagnosed with colon cancer. see [9])
* Charles Schulz, Creator of Peanuts (died at age 77; died 60 days after being diagnosed with colon cancer) [10].
* Lillian Board, British athlete
* Malcolm Marshall, Legendary West Indian and Hampshire Cricketer [11]
* Achille-Claude Debussy, Famous French composer [12]
* Bobby Moore, 1966 England World cup winning captain (died at age 51; died 2 years after being diagnosed with colon cancer) [13]
* Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Legendary American athlete [14]
* Joel Siegel, movie critic and Host of Good Morning America (died at age 64; died 10 years after being diagnosed with colon cancer)
* Eric Turner, second player taken in the 1991 NFL Draft
* Walter Matthau, American actor, had metastatic colon cancer, but died of heart disease on July 1, 2000, aged 79
* Vince Lombardi, legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers, died of metastatic colon cancer
* Rod Roddy, previous announcer for The Price Is Right (died at age 66; died 2 years after being diagnosed with colon cancer)
* George David Low, American aerospace executive and a former NASA astronaut; died 2008
* Corazon Aquino, Former president of the Philippines. [15]
* Jack Lemmon, American actor, died of colon cancer (and bladder cancer) on 27 June 2001, aged 76.
* Sharon Osbourne, British reality TV star and talent show judge, diagnosed with colon cancer in July 2002, aged 49. She is now 55, and is believed to have recovered
