What kind of cancer did Minnie Riperton have?

American singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton gained fame with her 1975 No. 1 single “Loving You,” which was taken from her gold-certified 1974 album Perfect Angel. She had two children with songwriter and music producer Richard Rudolph: Marc Rudolph, a music engineer, and Maya Rudolph, an actor and comedian.

What kind of cancer did Minnie Riperton have?

After receiving a breast cancer diagnosis in January 1976, Minnie underwent a major mastectomy. She was given a prognosis of around six months because the cancer had spread by the time of diagnosis. She continued traveling in 1977 and 1978 despite the bleak prognosis, and she was one of the first famous people to publicly announce that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. However, she did not reveal that she was terminally ill. Early in 1979, severe lymphedema rendered her right arm immobile. Her right arm would stay in place throughout one of her final singing performances on television with her right arm fixed.

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