List of Breast Cancer Patients By Survival Status - Died Due To Other Causes

Died Due To Other Causes

• Bella Abzug, American lawyer, politician and women's movement leader; had been battling breast cancer for a number of years before developing heart disease, which claimed her life; however, it was never publicly disclosed if the cancer had become advanced or metastasized, or what stage it was; called for grassroots action to stop the environmental pollution fueling the cancer epidemic; refused to call herself a breast cancer survivor, saying "I'm a breast cancer fighter, and that's what we all must be if we are going to change things." (died at age 77; see).
• Erma Bombeck, American columnist and author; survived breast cancer, but was later diagnosed with adult polycystic kidney disease (died during a kidney transplant at age 69; see).
• Fanny Burney, English novelist; survived breast cancer (died at age 88; see).
• Julia Child, famous American TV cook, known as "The French Chef"; survived breast cancer and died of natural causes; (died at age 91)
• Lili Chookasian, Armenian-American opera singer; died of natural causes in 2012 after surviving two bouts with breast cancer more thaqn 50 years earlier (died at age 90; see).
• Nellie Connally, American widow of former Texas Governor John Connally; survived breast cancer and died of natural causes (died at age 87; see).
• Delia Derbyshire, English pianist; composer of electronic music and musique concrète (died from renal failure, aged 64, while recovering from surgery; see).
• Betty Ford, United States First Lady; survived breast cancer (died at age 93 following a stroke; see).
• Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress; survived breast cancer (died at age 93; see).
• Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress; apparently survived breast cancer following a double mastectomy; causes of death per one of her biographies were kidney and stomach failure and pneumonia; died in 1990 (died at age 84; see).
• Paulette Goddard, American actress; apparently survived breast cancer, but died following a short battle with emphysema in Switzerland (died at age 79; see).
• Ruth Mosko Handler, American creator of Barbie and Nearly Me prosthetics; she survived breast cancer in the 1970s (died following colon cancer surgery at age 85; see).
• Jennifer Jones, American film actress and Academy Award winner; survived breast cancer (died at age 90 from natural causes; see).
• Jean Keene, "Eagle Lady" of Homer, Alaska, American activist; she underwent a mastectomy in 1994 and was labeled as a "breast cancer survivor" (died at age 85 on January 13, 2009, from undisclosed causes; see).
• Kathy Keeton, South African-born and bred Penthouse publisher; wife of publisher/collector Bob Guccione; died from complications during surgery on an intestinal obstruction after having first treated herself with hydrazine sulfate, reportedly reducing the size and number of tumors (died at age 58; see).
• Evelyn Lauder, American businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and breast cancer awareness activist (died at age 75 from ovarian cancer; see).
• Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist, entertainer and singer; survived breast cancer, but died in 1998 from uterine cancer (died at age 65; see).
• Myrna Loy, American actress, had a double mastectomy; died during surgery for undisclosed causes (died at age 88).
• Rue McClanahan, American TV/stage actress; survived breast cancer, but died in 2010 following a stroke (died at age 76; see).
• Jane McGrath, wife of Australian cricket champion Glenn McGrath; a cancer support campaigner and activist who was originally diagnosed with breast cancer, later bone cancer (declared in remission) and died from complications of brain cancer surgery, aged 42 (see).
• Anna Moffo, Italian-American singer and operatic soprano who died from a stroke after grappling with complications of breast cancer for a decade (died at age 73; see).
• Alla Nazimova, Russian-born American stage and film actress who survived breast cancer but died due to a coronary thrombosis in 1945 (died at age 66; see).
• Anna Belle Clement O'Brien, Tennessee politician who worked for legislation to benefit breast cancer patients following her own diagnosis in the 1980s (died in 2009, aged 86, after a fall).
• Minnie Pearl, born Sarah Ophelia Colley, American Grand Ole Opry star, country comic, singer & philanthropist, who battled breast cancer and died in 1996 of complications from a stroke (died at age 83; see).
• Claire Rayner, British nurse, journalist, writer, and activist (died in 2010, aged 79; see).
• Alma Reville, English-born actress and assistant film director, wife of film director Alfred Hitchcock; survived breast cancer (died of natural causes, aged 82).
• Jean Simmons, British-born American film, stage and television actress; treated apparently successfully for breast cancer, but died from lung cancer in 2010 (died at age 80; see).
• Susan Sontag, American author, initially diagnosed with advanced or metastatic breast cancer, but died of a form of leukemia traceable to the massive doses of radiotherapy and chemotherapy she had received decades earlier for her breast cancer; she was also diagnosed with a rare form of uterine cancer shortly before her death, which, however, did not appear to play any role in her demise (died at age 71; see).
• Gloria Stuart, American actress, activist and artist, successfully treated for breast cancer (died in 2010, aged 100; see).
• Henny van Andel-Schipper, Dutch-born woman who was the "World's Oldest Person" from May 29, 2004, until her death on August 30, 2005; successfully treated for breast cancer at age 100 (died at age 115 of an unrelated gastric cancer; see).