Famous Patients
- John Diamond, British broadcaster and journalist (throat cancer)
- Benny Green, British saxophonist
- Ray Harford, English football player and manager (lung cancer)
- Caroline St John-Brooks, British journalist and academic (breast cancer)
- George Harrison, of the Beatles (lung and throat cancer)
- Charlie Watts, drummer of the Rolling Stones (throat cancer)
- Jade Goody, British Reality Television Star (cervical cancer)
- Susannah York, British actress (bone marrow cancer)
The local press in South London frequently has reports of fundraising activities performed by patients and/or their relatives.
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or patients:
“When I was bound apprentice, in famous Lincolnshire,
Full well I served my master for more than seven year,
Till I took up poaching, as you shall quickly hear:
Oh, ‘tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.”
—Unknown. The Lincolnshire Poacher (l. 1–4)
“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)