Top 15 Famous Women Who Beat Cancer To Inspire Others

7. Christina Applegate

From Married…With Children to the way-too-funny-to-be-cancelled Up All Night, Applegate has what it takes to make us laugh. It was no laughing matter when cancer was detected in one breast, and with a family history of cancer, she elected to have a radical mastectomy, removing both breasts to minimize the risk of any sort of recurrence.