Great Leaders,Men or Women in History with Cancer Deaths?
What if any famous, great leaders or influential people have died or thought to have died from cancer in history. I don’t mean recent history, more of a hundred or hundreds of years ago.
Surely it must have been around even then.
Help me out guys, this is bugging me.
Ulysses Grant died of Cancer in 1885
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:51 pm
It wasoriginally thought that Napoleon died form stomach cancer, though modern research has suggested that he may have been poisoned
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March 3rd, 2010 at 12:30 am
Ulysses Grant died of Cancer in 1885
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March 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 am
catherine of aragon died from some sort of tumour they think… does she count as an influential leader??
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March 3rd, 2010 at 1:26 am
hi ,as with each generation in time it brought with it its own disease until modern times when penicillin’s ,became widely available things like the common cold could kill you.like in our grandfathers time a pain,in the stomach a simple appendix operation could sort like in the seventies it was tb eighty’s it was cancer in the ninety’s its is hiv and so forth
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March 3rd, 2010 at 1:42 am
Theodora, Empress of Byzantium, 542 or thereabouts.
Yes, Napoleon – the poisoning story has been discredited, it seems to me. He died of linitis plastica.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 1:49 am
Sigmund freud, ulysses grant – throat cancer
Queen Mary, johannes Brahms died of stomach cancer.
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March 3rd, 2010 at 1:59 am
Marie Curie eventually died from prolonged exposure to the radium she had discovered (which of course allowed later cancer victims to be treated).
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March 3rd, 2010 at 3:18 am
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