| Name |
Life |
Comments |
Diagnosis |
| Bella Abzug |
(1920 - 1998) |
American politician, lawyer and women's movement leader; battled breast cancer for years before developing heart disease, which claimed her life; it was never publicly disclosed if the cancer had metastasized; died at age 77 |
diagnosed in 1994 at age 73 |
| Barbara Allen |
(19?? - present) |
American politician, Kansas State Senator |
diagnosed in 2005 |
| Rose Bird |
(1936 - 1999) |
first female Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court; died at age 63 |
diagnosed in 1976 at age 40 |
| Edward Brooke |
(1919 - present) |
male African-American former U.S. Senator of Massachusetts |
diagnosed in 2002 at age 83 |
| Barbara Burton |
(1937 - 2002) |
wife of American politician Dan Burton, United States Representative from Indiana; died at age 65 |
diagnosed in 1993 at age 56 |
| Robin Carnahan |
(19?? - present) |
American politician, Missouri Secretary of State |
diagnosed in 2006 |
| Mary Jo Codey |
(19?? - present) |
former First Lady of New Jersey, school teacher and wife of former Governor of New Jersey Richard Codey; Mary Jo's mother died due to breast cancer |
diagnosed in 2002 |
| Nellie Connally |
(1919 - 2006) |
American wife of former Texas Governor John Connally; survived breast cancer and died of natural causes at age 87; established the Nellie B. Connally Breast Cancer Fund in 1989 |
diagnosed in 1988 at age 69 |
| Margaret Daley |
(19?? - present) |
wife and First Lady of American politician, Chicago, Illinois Mayor Richard M. Daley |
diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2002 |
| Jo Ann Davis |
(1950 - 2007) |
American politician, Virginia Congresswoman |
diagnosed in September, 2005 at age 55 |
| Peggy Duff |
(1910 - 1981) |
British political activist and organiser of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament; died at age 71 |
|
| Eileen Dugan |
(1945 - 1996) |
American politician; Brooklyn, New York State Assemblywoman; died at age 51 |
diagnosed in 1992 at age 37 |
| Elizabeth Anania Edwards |
(1949 - present) |
American lawyer; wife of former U.S. Senator from North Carolina John Edwards |
diagnosed in 2004 at age 55 |
| Margaret Ewing |
(1945 - 2006) |
Scottish National Party politician and Member of the Scottish Parliament and wife of fellow MSP Fergus Ewing; died at age 60 |
diagnosed in 2002 at age 57 |
| Betty Ford |
(1918 - present) |
former First Lady of the United States, founder of the Betty Ford Center and wife of former President Gerald Ford |
diagnosed in 1974 at age 56 |
| Bea Gaddy |
(1933 - 2001) |
African-American Baltimore City Council member and advocate for the poor; recurrence in 2001 at age 68; died at age 68 |
diagnosed in 1998 at age 65 |
| Megan Lloyd George |
(1902 - 1966) |
British politician, daughter of Prime Minister David Lloyd George; died at age 64 |
|
| Christine Gregoire |
(1947 - present) |
American politician; current Governor of Washington State |
diagnosed in 2003 at age 56 |
| Lady Augusta Gregory |
(1852 - 1932) |
Irish nationalist landowner; died at age 80 |
|
| Heidi Heitkamp |
(1955 - present) |
North Dakota politician and lawyer |
diagnosed in 2000 at age 45 |
| Klara Hitler |
(1860 - 1907) |
Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler; died at age 47 |
|
| Janette Howard |
(1944 - present) |
wife of Australian Prime Minister John Howard |
diagnosed in 1996 at age 52 |
| Jeanne Hyde |
(19?? - 1992) |
wife of U.S. Congressman Henry Hyde; died in 1992 |
|
| Susan Kadis |
(1953 - present) |
Canadian Member of Parliament |
diagnosed in 1995 at age 42 |
| Virginia Clinton Kelley |
(1923 - 1994) |
American mother of former President Bill Clinton; died at age 71 |
|
| Joan Kennedy |
(1936 - present) |
former wife of Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts); had surgery and is continuing treatment |
diagnosed in 2005 at age 68 |
| Thomasina Lawson |
(1961 - 1993) |
daughter of former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Nigel Lawson and sister of British journalists Nigella Lawson and Dominic Lawson; died at age 32 |
|
| Datin Seri Endon Mahmood |
(1940 - 2005) |
wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia Abdullah Ahmad Badawi; her twin sister, Noraini, died due to breast cancer in 2003; died at age 64 |
diagnosed in 2002 at age 61 |
| Judy Eason McIntyre |
(19?? - present) |
African-American politician, Oklahoma State Senator |
diagnosed in August, 2006 |
| Tucker L. Melancon |
(1947 - present) |
male United States District Judge, Western District of Louisiana, 5th Circuit since 1994 |
diagnosed in 2002 at age 56 |
| Janet Napolitano |
(1957 - present) |
American politician, Governor of Arizona |
diagnosed in 2000 at age 43 |
| Jocelyn Newman |
(1937 - present) |
former Senator from the Australian Parliament for Tasmania; treated successfully |
diagnosed in 1993 at age 56 |
| Eileen O'Connell |
(1947 - 2000) |
late Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, Canada, for Halifax-Fairview; died on September 27, 2000 at age 53 |
diagnosed in 1998 at age 51 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor |
(1930 - present) |
first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice |
diagnosed in 1988 at age 58 |
| Siobhan O'Hanlon |
(1963 - 2006) |
Northern Irish Sinn Féin official and former Provisional Irish Republican Army member; niece of PIRA member, Joe Cahill; died at age 43 on 11 April 2006 |
diagnosed in October 2002 at age 39 |
| Irma Rangel |
(1932 - 2003) |
American politician, Texas State Representative; died of inflammatory breast cancer; died at age 71 |
|
| Nancy Reagan |
(1921 - present) |
former First Lady of the United States and wife of former President Ronald Reagan |
diagnosed in 1987 at age 66 |
| M. Jodi Rell |
(1946 - present) |
American politician, Governor of Connecticut |
diagnosed in 2004 at age 58 |
| Kathleen Reynolds |
(19?? - present) |
wife of former Irish taoiseach, Albert Reynolds |
diagnosed in 1991 |
| Angelena Rice |
(1924 - 1985) |
mother of United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; died at age 61 |
diagnosed in 1969 at age 45 |
| Margaretta Fitler Murphy Rockefeller |
(1926 - present) |
aka Happy Rockefeller, American socialite and wife of the late former N.Y. Governor and U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller |
diagnosed in 1974 at age 48 |
| Darby Hickson Rove |
(1948 - present) |
graphics designer; 2nd wife of Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove |
|
| Debra Shipley |
(1957 - present) |
British politician - Labour Party member of Parliament |
diagnosed in 2005 at age 47 |
| Claire Shulman |
(19?? - present) |
former Borough President of Queens, New York City |
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| Rosalie (Ricky) Gaull Silberman |
(1937 - 2007) |
American activist who co-founded the Independent Women's Forum; died at age 69 |
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| Linda Tripp |
(1949 - present) |
former American Government employee and Monica Lewinsky's former confidant |
diagnosed in 2001 at age 51 |
| Ann Veneman |
(1949 - present) |
former head of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture |
diagnosed in 2002 at age 52 |
| Jenna Welch |
(1919 - present) |
mother of American First Lady Laura Bush |
diagnosed in 1997 at age 78 |