11.   A year later, her husband, Srdan, was diagnosed with a rare form of throat cancer.

12.   After a brush with throat cancer, he gave up smoking, too.

13.   After reading that Dodgers center fielder Brett Butler had been diagnosed with throat cancer, Boren said he sat down and wrote the popular player a letter.

14.   Alberto Osuna has been diagnosed with throat cancer. . . .

15.   But Brett Butler appears to have beaten throat cancer and is back leading off for the Dodgers.

16.   Butler, hoping his throat cancer is only a bad memory, is attempting to play one more season.

17.   Butler, who used smokeless tobacco for a while in his career, battled back from throat cancer last summer.

18.   Butler, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in early May, had subsequent surgery and on Monday completed a six-week program of radiation treatment.

19.   By then, he was unable to speak, a victim of throat cancer after decades of chain-smoking cigarettes.

20.   Chapman, who lived in Birmingham, Mich., died of throat cancer.