Celebrities Who Beat Cancer’s A** @Robinrazzi October 1, 2018 at 10:54 am in What's The Tea w/Razzi Tweet October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Everyone has a personal connection to this dreadful disease – either we’ve battled it personally or we know someone who has. According to cancer.org, more than 3.5 million US women with a history of breast cancer were alive on January 1, 2016. Here is a list of black celebrities that have battled and beat breast cancer. 1. Hoda Kotb 2. Wanda Sykes 3. Robin Roberts 4. Vanessa Bell Calloway 5. Zoleka Mandela 6. Diahann Carroll 7. Patti LaBelle Tags: black breast cancer survivors, breast cancer, breast cancer awareness month, breast cancer survivors, celebrities who beat cancer, celebrity breast cancer survivors