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Breaking Amish’s Chapel Peace Schmucker gets chemo, forgoes Gerson cancer treatment in Mexico

ByAsa Hawks

It was a gut-wrenching moment on Return to Amish when cast member Chapel Peace revealed her cancer had returned. Since the cameras stopped rolling we’ve continued to update fans on how Chapel (now a Schmucker) is doing, with our last check in coming back in July. At the time Chapel had launched a Go Fund Me campaign in hopes of raising enough money to pay for her to receive the alternative Gerson Therapy treatment in Mexico. That campaign has raised nearly $4,000 to date, so what has that meant for Chapel? Keep reading for all the latest updates from her.

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The Challenge’s Diem Brown looks to surrogacy in order to have a child

ByJessica Bradford

After reporting the sad news that Diem Brown is battling cancer for the third time, we have a happier update from The Challenge veteran. She is looking to surrogacy for her future family! Part of her battle with ovarian cancer included an emergency hysterectomy in August. Unfortunately, that meant her dreams of carrying her own child had come crashing down. But, Diem’s a fighter and isn’t giving up on her dream of having a family of her own.

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Breaking Amish Vonda Schrock on boyfriend Keith dying of cancer in 2008

ByAsa Hawks

A brand new Breaking Amish cast head to Brooklyn in tonight’s Season 3 premiere, but one cast member is no stranger to leaving loved ones behind. Vonda Schrock talks about the passing of her boyfriend Keith, who died at the age of 20 from cancer in 2008, including how things may have been different had he not been Amish. Plus, she explains how his death has impacted her life and heavily influenced her decision to go to New York City.

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MTV The Challenge star Diem Brown diagnosed with cancer for third time

ByAsa Hawks

We have some sad news to report from the world of reality TV as The Challenge‘s Diem Brown, who has very publicly survived two separate battles with ovarian cancer, has been diagnosed with colon cancer. Diem is currently in the ICU at a New York City hospital in stable condition after multiple surgeries to remove tumors discovered after she collapsed during filming of a reality show abroad.

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REPORT Valerie Harper sued for $2M for withholding cancer diagnosis from employer

ByEmily

On top of battling brain cancer, Valerie Harper now must contend with a lawsuit filed by her former employer. In the lawsuit, playwright Matthew Lombardo claims Valerie intentionally failed to disclose her 2009 cancer diagnosis before singing onto his show. She had to drop out of the production when the cancer spread to her brain in 2013.

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The Little Couple’s Jen Arnold’s in remission from choriocarcinoma!

ByEmily

Oh, happy day! The Little Couple‘s Jen Arnold announced she is in remission from her rare form of cancer! This is the news we’ve been waiting for ever since the awesome reality star/mother-of-two was diagnosed with stage 3 choriocarcinoma last fall.

See what Jen and husband Bill Klein have to say…

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The Little Couple’s Jen Arnold shares cancer updates, chemo photo

ByAsa Hawks

Earlier this month The Little Couple star Jennifer Arnold revealed that she was battling stage 3 uterine cancer and the 39-year-old neonatologist and mother of two has been keeping fans updated on her condition through the holidays via Twitter with lots of photos, including one of herself smiling with no hair that was accompanied by the tweet, “Day2 inpatient chemo- sleeping alot, liking new anti nausea med this time, & looking to get home today! #GetWellJen” Keep reading for more from Jen!

VIDEO Giuliana Rancic explains how cancer changed her diet and exercise routines
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VIDEO Giuliana Rancic explains how cancer changed her diet and exercise routines

ByEmily

Giuliana Rancic recently opened up about how her experiences with surviving breast cancer and becoming a mother have changed her goals with diet and exercise. Unlike fellow cancer survivor Christina Applegate, Giuliana said she is now more laid-back about her routines…

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Woman dying of cancer tries to find a new lover on Craigslist for the man she’s cheating with

ByStarcasm Staff

A woman dying of pancreatic cancer put out a Craigslist ad in an attempt to find female companionship for the man she’s cheating on her husband with. The boyfriend has no idea that she’s doing this, but she says she will try to “persuade him to contact,” the women she deems fit to be her replacement.

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Michael Douglas theorizes that oral sex may have caused throat cancer

ByDarren O

While promoting his HBO film Behind the Candelabra, Michael Douglas stated that he believed his throat cancer was caused by contracting a strain of HPV via oral sex. Read on for his comments, what an expert had to say on the matter and how the Oscar-winner’s rep attempted to clarify the statement.

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Angelina Jolie reportedly planning to remove her ovaries

ByStarcasm Staff

Angelina Jolie stunned the world when she revealed Tuesday that over the past few months she’s been undergoing procedures in association with a double mastectomy to reduce her chances of developing breast cancer because she has a mutation in her BRCA1 gene. This choice has reduced her breast cancer risk from 87% to only 5%, but she still has a 50% chance of developing ovarian cancer, the very disease that killed her mother. Will Angelina get a hysterectomy or remove her ovaries to reduce her risk of this cancer?

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Sofia Vergara to use a surrogate for next baby because she’s a thyroid cancer survivor

ByStarcasm Staff

40-year-old Sofia Vergara is freezing her eggs and plans to use a surrogate for her next child. She already has one child, Manolo Gonzalez (21), from a previous marriage, but she wants to have a child with her fiance Nick Loeb, which could be tricky not only because of her age, but because of a past battle with thyroid cancer.

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World of Jenks’ Kaylin Andres health update

ByStarcasm Staff

World of Jenks Season Two tells the compelling stories of three individuals, one of which is literally fighting for her life. Andrew Jenks was with 27-year-old fashion designer and comic-book co-author, two-time cancer survivor Kaylin Andres as she moved to New York to follow her dreams last year, and then almost immediately suffered a recurrence of Ewing’s Sarcoma, the first kind of cancer she was diagnosed with.

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Fashion designer Kaylin Andres to be featured on Season 2 of World of Jenks

ByDarren O

The critically acclaimed World of Jenks is finally returning for a 2nd season on Nov 12 and this time the focus of documentarian Andrew Jenks will be squarely on 3 extraordinary young adults. One of the peeps that Andrew spent an entire year with is fashion designer and so much more, Kaylin Andres. Find out about a truly interesting soul including links, bio, videos, photos and more.