Suzanne Somers

Famous actress, author and wellness figure who became a public breast-cancer survivor/advocate and wrote Knockout, a cancer-focused book interviewing doctors promoting alternative/integrative cancer approaches. Featured interviewee or host connected with The Truth About Cancer documentary/docu-series ecosystem. This record was seeded from public cast/roster pages and should be enriched with primary-source biographical details in later passes.

Featured interviewee or host connected with The Truth About Cancer documentary/docu-series ecosystem. This record was seeded from public cast/roster pages and should be enriched with primary-source biographical details in later passes.

Suzanne Somers (October 16, 1946 - October 15, 2023) was widely known as an actress from Three's Company and Step by Step, but this record focuses on her cancer-related public work. After a breast cancer diagnosis around 2000/2001, she publicly discussed lumpectomy and radiation, declining chemotherapy, and using adjunctive/alternative approaches such as Iscador/mistletoe. She later became a prominent health-and-wellness author and cancer commentator. Her cancer-focused book Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer--And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place (Crown, 2009) collected interviews with doctors using alternative or integrative approaches and became one of the books most closely associated with her cancer advocacy. Public death reports state she died at home in Palm Springs on October 15, 2023 after a long breast cancer battle, with later reporting citing breast cancer with metastasis to the brain.