Stars who battled serious ailments

Lisa Ray- When the model turned actress forayed in India, she created a storm. She was bold, beautiful and simply gorgeous. Her videos for Nusrat Fateh Ali khan made her popular, especially the song Afreen Afreen. But tragedy struck the actress when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer- multiple myeloma in 2009, a cancer of the white blood cells known as plasma cells, which produce antibodies.. Ten months after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, the Canadian born actress says she is cancer free after a stem cell transplant.