Actress Valerie Harper beat lung cancer in 2009, but in 2013, she was given only three months to live after being diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis—a rare complication of cancer that spreads to the membranes surrounding the brain. However, she has defied the odds and even participated as a contestant on the 17th season of Dancing With the Stars.
Sadly, Harper, known for her roles as Rhoda Morgenstern in the television series The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff Rhoda, is near the end of her life after a six-year battle with terminal brain cancer.
