Amphlett announced in 2007 that she had multiple sclerosis and in 2010 that she had cancer.
Added to her undoubted efficiency was the sympathy she got from claiming she had cancer.
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But instead, as her father sat next to her on the couch and her mother knelt down beside her, they told Gigi she had cancer.
Shortly before that election, his wife, Elizabeth, discovered she had cancer.
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The woman claimed the incident had "ruined her life" and that her children had asked if she had cancer due to how affected she had apparently been.
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She didn't seem to have much sympathy for the fact that Lynn Mason had just found out she had cancer and might have other things on her mind.
She didn't have health insurance and discovered she had cancer.
Ten years ago she had colon cancer and she's had a routine screening every year since, which is how they caught this.
She's never missed a day of court because of illness, not even when she had colon cancer or afterwards when she had chemotherapy and radiation.
When her insurance company raised her rates, she had to give up her coverage, even though she had been paying thousands of dollars in premiums for years, because she had beaten cancer 11 years earlier.
In December, 1998, Mrs Ward was concerned that she had throat cancer, Dr Kerr said.
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Elizabeth Edwards discovered she had breast cancer in October 2004, in the final weeks of Edwards' vice presidential campaign.
About 10 years after their initial reunion, Kroll learned she had pancreatic cancer.
She was so excited when her doctor said that she had pancreatic cancer and likely would only live six or seven weeks.
Edith Bunker, played by Stapleton, for instance revealed that she had breast cancer on the show, a rare occurrence at the time.
And even though she had been cancer-free for more than a decade, the insurance companies kept on jacking up her rates, year after year.
Amphlett, who lived in New York with her husband, announced in 2010 that she had breast cancer, several years after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Anne Williams had hoped Dominic Grieve would be able to bring the inquest forward, after he vowed to help on learning she had terminal cancer.
Cooking is Nasser's passion, but she left the kitchen and the cooking to others for six months in 2006 when she, like her mother before her, learned she had breast cancer.
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The court heard that Mr Doyle and Ms Rees argued at their property after he had turned up late and drunk to collect her from hospital after she had breast cancer surgery.
My wife and I were diagnosed with breast cancer in February of this year (she actually had the cancer, I lived through it with her).
The previous June, she had learned that she had a recurrence of ovarian cancer, and, after surgery, had resumed her chemotherapy treatment.
She died of cancer and she had it before and survived about 27 years a good run.
In 2004, she learned that she had advanced ovarian cancer, which required extensive surgery and eighteen months of chemotherapy.
She had been undergoing a procedure for the removal of an ovarian cyst when the gynecologist who was operating on her discovered that she had metastatic colon cancer.
She thought she had beaten her breast cancer but then later discovered it had spread to her bones.
Then, last week, two months into a semester of study abroad in Spain, she learned her cancer had returned.
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