Craig Shergold (24 June 1979 – 21 April 2020) was a British cancer patient who received an estimated 350 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
After antibiotics were unsuccessful in treating his symptoms, in 1989, doctors diagnosed him, at the age of nine, with what they considered terminal brain cancer.
[2][3] Craig received greeting cards from all over the world including celebrities like Madonna and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
American billionaire John Kluge, founder of Metromedia, learned of Shergold's illness and arranged for him to travel to the US for a new type of operation.
He was operated on in 1991 at the University of Virginia Medical Center, where a physician was able to remove virtually all of the tumour except for a benign fragment.
[3] A related chain letter which retained Shergold's address (in a somewhat corrupted form) asked secretaries and heads of Polish public institutions and local authorities to send get-well cards to a "Harold Sarid".