Cancer Speakers

Kelly Corrigan

The New York Times best-selling author of The Middle Place and Lift, Corrigan has a way of connecting with readers and audiences alike. Sharing life experiences from battling breast cancer at the young age of 36, to learning of her father's late-stage cancer, to the emotional struggles and personal ...

Fran Drescher

A celebrity speaker and actress who became a household name starring in The Nanny, the series she invented and developed from "pitch" to production, Drescher is a larger than life personality that reflects her substantial talent. Previously diagnosed with cancer and given a clean bill of health, she has written ...

Don Shula

Hall of Famer, Shula is considered by many to be the greatest coach ever to step on a playing field. Co-author of Everyone's a Coach, he helps audiences learn his extremely effective philosophies on success, teamwork, and achievement.

Gail Sheehy

As the best-selling author of over a dozen books, including Passages, Gail Sheehy has rocked the culture and changed the way millions of women and men look at the stages of their lives. A Library of Congress survey named Passages one of the ten most influential books of our time. In her latest book, ...

David Satcher

As the 16th Surgeon General, Dr. Satcher encouraged public debate about issues including mental health, bioterrorism, sex education, AIDS, tobacco, obesity, and balancing the community healthcare system. As the force behind creating Healthy People 2010, the nation's health agenda, he works to eliminate racial disparities ...

Linda Armstrong Kelly

Linda Armstrong Kelly’s life story is captivating audiences everywhere. Her son, seven-time Tour de France Champion Lance Armstrong, credits her as the unsung hero who assisted him in reaching his spectacular cycling victories – and in his triumph over cancer.

Richard Carmona

As the 17th Surgeon General, Dr. Carmona developed comprehensive knowledge of the environmental influences on healthy living today. He offers a close look at the epidemic of asthma in young children as well as other issues directly related to the state of our environment and how we can work towards not only a healthy body, ...

Linda Ellerbee

In the eighteen years since her diagnosis, Ellerbee has been appearing before sell-out audiences all over the country to tell her story about living with breast cancer. An outspoken journalist, award-winning television producer, and best-selling author, she is a woman of spirit and determination who has enlightened and ...

Michael Samuelson

For the past 35 years, Michael Samuelson – entrepreneur, senior executive in health insurance, CEO, university professor, and US health policy advisor – has lectured on leadership, health promotion, patient experience, health policy, disease prevention, and the dynamics of behavior change. The author of five books and ...

Patti LaBelle

A soulful maven, Labelle has earned her place in Grammy-winning music royalty with her powerful high octave voice. She is also a New York Times best-selling author, television star, celebrity speaker and healthcare advocate who is proactive in the fight against diabetes, the disease that claimed her mother's life.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Ricardo Antonio Chavira went from relative anonymity to international fame as Wisteria Lane’s resident bad boy “Carlos Solis,” on ABC's Desperate Housewives. He is San Antonio’s honorary spokesman for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, having become fervently committed to the cause after ...

Hoda Kotb

Hoda Kotb was named co-anchor of the fourth hour of The Today Show in August 2007. She has also been a Dateline NBC correspondent since April 1998 and the host of the weekly syndicated series Your Total Health since September 2004.

Roger and Kathy Cawthon

Roger Cawthon was a television sportscaster for CNN. Kathy Cawthon is a freelance writer and photographer. The couple was diagnosed with cancer within six weeks of each other. After rigorous cancer treatment, the two founded the Cancer Crusade, an organization dedicated to fighting cancer with hope and humor.

Marcia Strassman

Best known for her role as Julie Kotter in the iconic 1970s TV series Welcome Back Kotter and as the eponymous "Honey" in the Honey I Shrunk the Kids movies, Marcia Strassman is a self described "Cancer Warrior," willing to take on anything to win her battle, and take as many women along with her as she ...

Geralyn Lucas

Geralyn Lucas was only 27 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Shaking the foundations of her world, she was faced with the harrowing decision of whether or not to undergo a mastectomy. She shares her incredible journey in her memoir, Why I Wore Lipstick: To My Mastectomy, and her powerful keynote speeches.

Kayce Freed Jennings

Kayce Freed Jennings is co-founder and executive vice president of The Documentary Group, an independent production company. The Documentary Group produced Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award.

Joe Torre

The experience of leading the Yankees to three World Series titles makes Torre an expert on what it takes to win and the importance of teamwork. His tenacity and dedication has made him the only person ever to be named both the MVP and Manager of the Year.

Jeffrey Wigand

As a tobacco control and ethics crusader, and the highest-ranking former tobacco industry executive ever to address public health and safety, Dr. Wigand's story was the inspiration for the award-winning movie, The Insider, starring Russell Crowe. A true proponent of proper business ethics, Wigand moves audiences with his ...

Cam Neely

Cam Neely played thirteen years in the NHL, the final ten with the Boston Bruins. His career came to an end in August of 1996 when he was diagnosed with a career-ending hip injury. Most of his efforts are now dedicated toward the Neely Foundation, where he serves as President. The Neely House is a home away from home ...

Susan Love

Under her direction, The Revlon/UCLA Breast Center developed the first comprehensive practice guidelines on breast disease and was designated one of the top ten hospitals for women. Helped found the National Breast Cancer Coalition which increased research funding from $90 million to $410 million in two years.