Tahira Kashyap To Manisha Koirala: Celebrities Who Survived Cancer

World Cancer Day is annually observed on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. We have listed down the Bollywood celebs who braved cancer.

In 2019, Tahira bravely faced a diagnosis of “stage 0” breast cancer, undergoing a mastectomy procedure and triumphing over the disease.

Kiron Kher battled cancer in 2021 and was working throughout the recovery process.

Sanjay Dutt was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in August 2020. He took treatment in Mumbai and months later, he announced that he was cancer-free.

In 2018, Sonali Bendre announced that she had been diagnosed with metastatic cancer and was undergoing treatment in a New York City hospital. In 2021, the actress announced that she is cancer-free.

In June 2009, Lisa Ray was diagnosed with a rare disease, multiple myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells known as plasma cells. A year later, she was cancer-free, after stem cell transplant.

Manisha Koirala was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer in 2012 and went for treatment in New York. She's been cancer-free for more than ten years now.

Anurag Basu was diagnosed with blood cancer in 2004.