Mr. T
Type of Cancer: T-Cell Lymphoma
Believe it or not, even Mr. T is not immune to cancer. In 1995, he was removing a diamond earring and felt a bump. Two weeks later, he went to a dermatologist, where a biopsy revealed he had T-Cell Lymphoma.
“Can you imagine that?” Mr. T told Coping magazine, “Cancer with my name on it—personalized cancer.”
Cancer had reappeared several times for Mr. T before he became cancer free, but each time he kept on fighting. In classic Mr. T fashion, he had this to say: “I pity the fool who just gives up. We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight. Don’t sit around waiting on death. We can be tough. We can be determined. Go out and have some fun and make death find you! We can be living with cancer, not dying from it. We can be cancer survivors.”
