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Posts with tag rose
Posted Jul 5th 2007 6:00PM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Lung Cancer, Daily news, Sports
Jimmy Walker, former Providence College basketball star and first pick in the 1967 NBA draft, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 63.
Walker played three seasons at Providence and held a school record with a total of 2,045 scored points. His record stood for 38 years. Ryan Gomes surpassed his total in 2005.
"He was an amazing phenomenon," says Jim Cox, who played with Walker in 1964. "That he ended up at Providence College was a remarkable development. He was so good, so blessed. He was ahead of his time."
Walker, father of NBA player Jalen Rose -- part of Michigan's Fab Five of the 1990s -- was drafted by the Detroit Pistons and averaged 16.7 points a game in nine NBA seasons. At one time, Walker and Rose held the NCAA Division I record for most career points by a father-son duo.
Posted Jan 17th 2007 12:30PM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Stomach Cancer, Daily news, Celebrity in memoriam
Soap opera actress Darlene Conley, best known for playing Sally Spectra for the past 20 years on
The Bold and the Beautiful, lost her battle with cancer over the weekend. She was 72.
Conley, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer just three months ago, also played characters on
Days of our Lives and
General Hospital -- and many knew her as black market baby broker Rose DeVille on
The Young and the Restless.
Before embarking on a daytime career, Conley made appearances in movies
The Birds and
Valley of the Dolls and on television shows such as
Murder, She Wrote,
Cagney & Lacey, and
The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Posted Aug 19th 2006 11:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Research, Daily news
Just before my chemotherapy for breast cancer started -- when I was fantastically frightened by the toxic drugs that were about to drip into my veins -- I was told by doctors, nurses, survivors, friends that I would be just fine. I was young and strong and tough. I would easily tolerate the beating my body was about to take. This is what I was told and actually came to believe myself. I had no other choice really than to approach chemotherapy with a fighter mentality. And so I did. And I did pretty well for my first three doses of Adriamycin and Cytoxan -- given every two weeks instead of three in a
dose-dense fashion -- followed by one injection of Neulasta 24 hours later to maintain normal blood counts. And then something happened. And I did not end up tolerating the chemotherapy my gut told me was a scary endeavor.
Continue reading Breast cancer chemotherapy tougher on young women
Posted Aug 11th 2006 4:33PM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Events, Teen Cancers, Celebrity news
After completing the Guns n' Roses European tour singer Axl Rose made a surprise visit to the Teenage Cancer Trust Ward at the University College Hospital in London. It is
reported that he thrilled the teen cancer patients with his visit.
Teenage Cancer Trust Ward CEO Simon Davies is quoted as saying, "Axl spent time speaking with each of the patients individually asking about their diagnosis and treatment, and what they enjoyed doing when they were not in hospital. Speaking with patients after Axl's visit, I got a real sense of just how excited they were to have met him and how much it lifted their spirits."
The
Teenage Cancer Trust provides services, education and support for the special age-related needs of teens diagnosed with cancer. The teen cancer charity hosts Teenage Cancer Trust Challenges such as the Roof of the World Trek - Tibet to Everest Base Camp and Trekking the Deserts and Dunes of Southern Morocco adventures as an escape and way to raise funds for the charity; The Teenage Cancer Trust Find Your Sense of Tumour weekend conferences; and the annual Teenage Cancer Trust week of rock shows at the Royal Albert Hall featuring great acts like The Who, Bloc Party and Razorlight.
Posted Jul 22nd 2006 9:50PM by Kristina Collins
Filed under: Childhood Cancers, Cancer events, Bone Cancer, Fundraisers, Teen Cancers, Blogs, Cancer Survivors
Osteosarcoma begins in the bones. It is the most common type of bone cancer tumor in the group of bone cancers called osteogenic sarcomas. It affects 5 percent of all teens diagnosed with cancer. Symptoms usually include pain or swelling in the legs or arms.
Tina blogs about her daughter Kristina Rose. Kristina's website caught my eye one day because we share the same name. I wanted to read about her story. I have since then been in contact with Kristina's mom Tina. She is an amazing mom who lives with the fear of Kristina's cancer returning. Kristina is doing wonderful and is now over a two year survivor!
The Relay for Life is something that is very important to Tina. She wants to make sure that a cure is found! You can go to the American Cancer Society website to find more information about the Relay for Life or go here to find information about the Relay of Life that Kristina and her mom will be involved in.
On March 29th, 2004 Kristina was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma. She was only 11 years old. She is a beautiful young woman now, as you can see! Tina might not have too much to blog about these days except that Kristina is being a normal teenager and spending lots of time on the phone. This I love to hear!
Posted Jun 12th 2006 10:33AM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Celebrity fundraisers, Celebrity spokesperson, Opinion, Celebrity news
In a feature published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Julietta Jameson asks the same question many of us have asked --
Is the compassionate celebrity the new public pest? If you are talking about Paris Hilton's insatiable self-promotion in grabbing one more photo-op by making a shallow meaningless promise to a charity for kids with cancer, the answer is a resounding yes. If you are talking about U2's Bono, who regularly meets with world leaders and often knows far more about the subject under discussion than the politicians do, then the answer is an emphatic no.
Then there are all the celebrities who fall between the extremes of Hilton and Bono, who lend their name and some of their time, for noble reasons and then too for the less-admirable ambition of keeping themselves in the news, to causes that need attention for the fundraising needed to keep the charity or cause going.
Continue reading Actorvists: do celebrities help or hurt the cause?
Posted Jun 10th 2006 4:08PM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Alternative Therapies, Prevention, All Cancers, Stress Reduction, Books, Saturday Six
Stress is not good. Long-term stress can suppress the immune system. Part of cancer prevention is supporting a healthy immune system so it can do the job of stopping cancer before it has a chance to develop into disease.
Whether stress is related to work or family life, most of us experience too much stress in our daily life. Why the same events will cause some people stress and not others, or why the same event can cause us to experience stress at one time but not seem to bother us as much at a different time, is largely based on our perception of the event and how we define what is happening.
One of the best ways to escape stress? Never personalize what is taking place. Easier said than done, but with practice, it works in reducing the amount of stress and the number of times you experience stress in a day. Still, easier said than done.
Continue reading Saturday Six: Stress-free with six essential oils
Posted May 31st 2006 4:36PM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Drug, Colon and Rectal Cancer, Prevention, Events, Politics, Daily news
After 16 days, the hunger strike colon cancer patients launched in
protest over a broken campaign promise has ended. During Israel's last election, colon cancer patients were promised that their medications would be included in the 2006 health basket, and when that promise was not honored, they staged a hunger strike.
For 16 days they sat outside in the Rose Garden in Jerusalem, refusing to end the protest. They were willing to
die of hunger before they were willing to die from cancer because of medications denied. During the hunger strike, one of the protestors collapsed and had to be hospitalized at Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem. The protest has ended because the government has now assured the cancer patients they will receive the drugs they need to fight their cancer. But, if the promise is broken again, I suspect these strong-willed and resolute people will be right back protesting again. Cancer can make people that way -- from all the fighting against a disease that is trying to take life away. The government might want to just keep the promise.
Posted May 24th 2006 7:30AM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Breast Cancer, Prevention, Pink products, Cancer events, Celebrity fundraisers
In a private preview of the 84th Chelsea Flower Show, attended by The Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall and celebrities, Emma Thompson unveiled the pink rose that will become the signature plant for the
Plant Pink campaign. The campaign will raise money in support of Breast Cancer Care. "It seems to me there are more and more women getting this disease. Of course, since they are the growers and nurturers, the effects of a woman having this disease go very, very far through the family. The reverberations through children's and parents lives are very great. I am promoting this for all the people who I know who have lost their women." UK gardeners are being asked to plant pink plants using pink products all available at Wyevale Garden Centres. 50p from the sale of all pink plants will go towards raising money for the breast cancer charity. Wyevale Garden Centres, the UK's largest garden centre group with 114 stores, has chosen Breast Cancer Care as its Charity of the Year for 2006.
