Strong-spirit

Strong-spirit: biographies of notable people, their careers, life stories, key achievements and influence on culture, history and society.

Family Anderson

An American family with a mutation in the CDH1 gene has led to a rare form of stomach cancer in eight of its nine members

British, former fat woman.

Siobhan Thornton

British cafe worker who lost 50kg with the help of green tea

Habib Ullah Khan

Pakistani man with severe neurofibromatosis

Canadian boy with epidermolysis bullosa.

Sumiteru Taniguchi

Japanese survivor of the Nagasaki atomic explosion

American, World War II veteran, homeless

Amanda Da Silva

Brazilian woman who gave birth to third child but remained in medically induced coma

Nun, oldest woman to compete in Ironman

25-year-old British woman who became a victim of hypochondroplasia

Little British girl with anterior segment dysgenesis, glaucoma and Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome

Jagga and Kalia Kanhar

Indian craniopagus twins

American, victim of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.

Jacqueline Freney

Australian swimmer

British beauty queen suffering from bowel disease

Art Academy Student Overcomes Anorexia and Takes Up Weightlifting

Indian boy with frontonasal encephalocele

An American with a tumor in the small intestine.

Blind photographer

American civilian pilot who was captured

Little American girl with Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome and pulmonary fibrosis

Angelo` Mongiovi

Former American wheelchair athlete in track and field, basketball and rugby

Little girl successfully separated from parasitic twin

American woman who voluntarily donated her kidney

An Indonesian man whose body is covered in tree-like growths

Football player with one leg

American student with mast cell activation syndrome

Lonnie Bissonnette

Canadian athlete, one of the world's leading base jumpers

Charlotte Fitzmaurice

Mother of a seriously ill girl who was euthanized at the request of her family

British woman with severe facial disfigurement caused by the development of a haemangioma

A 30-year-old British woman who underwent gastric bypass surgery was left extremely unhappy with the result

British girl suffering from a neurological disorder

Ethan Rosenberg

Little American with SPG47

American girl with aquagenic urticaria.

Gail Falkenberg

American tennis player

Natasha Grindley

Woman Successfully Battling Stomach Cancer

American woman who survived 'internal decapitation'

Victim of prenatal rupture of amniotic sac.

Little American with EEC syndrome

Muhammad Sanaullah

Little Pakistani boy with hydrocephalus.

Jacqueline and Dawn Dacey

British sisters who became victims of malignant melanoma

American with cerebral palsy who doesn't back down from his illness

Young American woman with gastroparesis

Charlotte Davies

British woman with cystic fibrosis.

British retail supervisor with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

An elderly American man with stage four prostate cancer.

Young British man with selective eating disorder

An Indonesian man whose whole body is covered with tumors that look like blisters

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