Celebrity Stories

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  Yesterday & Today

  A Leading Lady

  Betty Ford's candor about her breast cancer diagnosis helped bring a private issue out of the shadows.

  by Corinna Wu

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  Yesterday & Today

  A Touch of Magic

  Elizabeth Montgomery led a bewitching life that was cut short by colorectal cancer in 1995.

  by Sue Rochman

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  Yesterday & Today

  Alec Guinness, Reluctant Intergalactic Icon

  Liver cancer took the legendary actor and his wife of 62 years just months apart. Twelve years later, where do efforts to prevent and treat the disease stand?

  by Jocelyn Selim

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  Yesterday & Today

  A King’s Legacy

  More than a quarter century after Yul Brynner's death from lung cancer, treatment advances offer some patients new options, but the cancer continues to claim more lives than any other. And the actor's haunting anti-smoking message lives on.

  by Sue Rochman