Who are famous mouth cancer patients?

There have been several famous mouth/oral cancer patients. Freud had cancer of the soft-palate. Babe Ruth suffered from cancer in the upper part of his throat. President Grover Cleveland was diagnosed with cancer in the roof of his mouth. In more recent times famous mouth cancer patients include Roger Ebert who had a cancer advance from a saliva gland to his jaw. Sammy Davis Jr. suffered from throat cancer. Most recently, Michael Douglas was diagnosed with throat/tongue cancer after a tumor was discovered at the base of his tongue. Many of these famous people have two risk factors for mouth cancer in common heavy tobacco and alcohol use.

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