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Posted Jul 30th 2007 3:30PM by Kristina Collins
Filed under: Leukemia, Blood Cancer, Celebrity in memoriam
Tom Synder, host of NBC's The Tomorrow Show passed away on Sunday from leukemia. Synder told the world on his webpage in 2005 that he had been diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The Tomorrow show aired in 1972 after The Tonight show with Johnny Carson. In 1995 he returned to late night TV starring in The Late Late show with Tom Synder.
His longtime producer and friend Mike Horowicz said "He was a great guy and very talented".
Posted Apr 10th 2007 11:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Breast Cancer, Pink products, Fundraisers
Tom Keilty of San Dimas, California lost his wife Ruth to breast cancer in 2005, 12 years after she was first diagnosed with the disease. From the very first day cancer entered their lives until the very last day of Ruth's life, the Keilty family received hundreds of hand-written notes for Ruth, filled with encouragement and support.
The notes are still arriving, this time for Keilty and his three children. The notes help strengthen this family's faith and help them grieve. The Keiltys are grateful for the trail of mail that has come their way -- and they ask others to consider writing their own their own notes of hope.
It's simple.
Just drop by a local retailer and pick up a special edition PaperMate Pink Ribbon Pen and Pink Pearl City of Hope Eraser. For each item sold through December 31, 2008, PaperMate will make a donation -- up to $200,000 -- to
City of Hope for breast cancer research, education, and treatment.
Then sit down and
Write for Hope in honor of someone battling breast cancer. Not only will you warm someone's heart, you will also earn the chance to win a $500 donation made in your honor to City of Hope Cancer Center.
Click
here to enter.
Posted Oct 30th 2006 10:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Testicular Cancer, Cancer by the Numbers
Testicular cancer, cancer in one or both of the testicles, usually occurs in young men and will strike about 8,250 of these men this year. About 370 men will die.
A man's lifetime risk of developing this cancer -- that typically shows up in only one testicle -- is 1 in 300, securing it as one of the less common cancers in the United States. The chances of dying from testicular cancer are 1 in 5,000, making it one of the most curable forms of cancer. Yet it is still the most common form of cancer in men ages 15-34. It is also a cancer commonly characterized by denial and embarrassment. As a result, it is one of the least mentioned cancers.
Continue reading Cancer by the Numbers: Testicular Cancer
Posted Aug 26th 2006 12:00PM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Celebrity cancer diagnosis, Throat Cancer, Daily news, Celebrity news, Radiation
Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton announced on Thursday -- via his publicist -- that he will miss the beginning of the band's upcoming tour and will rejoin the band in mid-October once he has fully recovered from radiation treatment for throat cancer.
Hamilton, 55, just completed seven weeks of radiation and plans to rest and heal in the company of family. In his absence, David Hull -- a longtime friend and former member of the Joe Perry Project -- will fill in as bassist. The Aerosmith tour --
Route of All Evil -- will begin on September 5 in Columbus, Ohio.
Posted Aug 12th 2006 9:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Chemotherapy, Lung Cancer, Celebrity cancer diagnosis, Television, Daily news, Movies
Suzanne Pleshette's agent reported on Friday that the actress is currently undergoing treatment for lung cancer. The cancer was discovered during a routine X-ray and was no bigger than a grain of sand. Pleshette apparently feels very lucky and is in great spirits as she receives outpatient chemotherapy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center -- where the cancer was diagnosed.
Pleshette, 69, is best known for her 1970s role as wife Emily on The Bob Newhart Show. Her other television credits include 8 Simple Rules and Will & Grace. She has appeared in the films If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium and Oh God! Book II. And her raspy voice has been featured on several animated films.
Pleshette has been married to Tom Poston, 84, since 2001. Poston costarred with Pleshette on The Bob Newhart Show.
Posted Aug 1st 2006 7:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Filed under: Celebrity cancer diagnosis, Celebrity spokesperson, Testicular Cancer, Television, Daily news, Celebrity news
MTV -- the ultimate source of music videos and pop culture -- has been around for 25 years now. And that amount of time makes for a lot of memories.
So in recognition of the entertainment MTV has offered over the years,
Indystar.com, Indiana's #1 local media site, takes a walk down memory lane and counts down 25 best MTV memories. It's fitting that many of the memories include actual music -- although some may say MTV is not really about music anymore, with music videos hard to come by -- so Michael Jackson's 1983 14-minute video
Thriller makes the list and so does the 1985 performances of Live Aid, a conglomeration of musicians who sang to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
But many memories are not recollections of music videos -- or even musical performances. They are nostalgic remembrances of other media events -- like a kiss between Madonna and Britney Spears during an award show, the running of the popular
Beavis and Butthead show and
Remote Control game show, peeks into spring break extravaganzas, and roof-raising reality shows like
The Real World and
The Osbourne's.
And even one socially-conscious piece that aired to raise awareness of testicular cancer. On May 23, 2000, wacky, stunt-pulling comedian Tom Green let viewers into his private world, in an operating room while he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous testicle and several lymph nodes. Green survived the surgery well -- and he is surviving cancer still today -- and his public handling of a serious disease goes down in MTV history as something truly memorable.
Posted Jun 8th 2006 11:22AM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Celebrity cancer diagnosis, Testicular Cancer, Blogs, Television, Celebrity news
The outlandish comedian Tom Green will sit at home in his livingroom and host an
internet-only talk show. During his stay at MTV, he taped The Tom Green Cancer Special, an intimate sharing of his diagnosis, surgery and recovery from testicular cancer in the usual Tom Green style of humor. It appears, in his new weekly phone-in internet-only talk show, his cohost will be his pet parrot Rex Murphy. Debuting June 15, Green will tape 50 episodes from his Hollywood Hills home.
"It seemed like the ultimate playground for someone like me," Green told the Associated Press Monday. "I've always enjoyed doing goofy experimental stuff that sometimes was too weird to put on a TV show but was fun artistically." The anything goes Tom Green show will air on ManiaTV.com. According to ManiaTV's VP of programming, Richard Ayoub, ManiaTV has no standards and practices.
Green is a six-year cancer survivor who proves that there is an uproarious life to be lived after a cancer diagnosis. Green certainly doesn't appear to have lost his sense of humor. In addition to his upcoming internet-only talk show, Green keeps a
website and a
blog.
Posted Jun 5th 2006 10:11AM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Skin Cancer, Melanoma, Prevention, Teen Cancers, Celebrity news
Celebrities can bring awareness to cancer causes. Celebrities can attract money to cancer fundraisers. Celebrities influence our society in fashion and lifestyle trends. Whether you are one who thinks celebrities have too much influence, and wondering why there seems a global obsession with celebrity -- or you are someone who applauds the efforts of those who have risen to success in fame and fortune and take time to give back, there is no doubting celebrities have power. And even when celebrities aren't trying to make a difference, they do, by the simple fact they are a celebrity.
A news story out of Canada is reporting that
young girls, inspired by fair-skinned celebrities like Australian actress Nicole Kidman, are rejecting the fashion standard that a tan makes you attractive and embracing what they are calling the
pale and proud of it attitude. When it comes to reducing the rising incidence of skin cancer, this couldn't come as better news. Really good news since it is in the young where a shocking number of new skin cancer cases are being diagnosed, a trend that is fairly recent to our times.
Posted May 19th 2006 11:11AM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Cancer events, Celebrity fundraisers
If you are a Tom Hanks fan --
and who isn't -- if you enjoyed reading the Da Vinci Code --
and who didn't -- if you plan on seeing the movie based on the book --
and many will be going to the theater to see this anticipated blockbuster movie -- and if you are into collecting memorabilia -- then I want to tell you about an
eBay auction that went live today. Hanks donated a signed personal copy of the Da Vinci Code book he used while filming the movie to support the
Macmillan Cancer Support cancer charity.
According to the folks at Macmillan Cancer Support, last September, IKEA Edinburgh store at Straiton invited Tom Hanks to their coffee morning, as part of Macmillan Cancer Support's World's Biggest Coffee Morning, as he was filming the Da Vinci Code at nearby Rosslyn Chapel. Unable to attend himself, he kindly sent his bodyguard with not only apologies but a signed personal copy of the book.
The highest bidder in the
eBay auction will win this celebrity signed book that has sparked both interest and controversy around the Holy Grail mythology. The auction runs from May 19 - 29 with all proceeds going to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Posted May 7th 2006 3:33PM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Alternative Therapies, Prevention
A new painting of Tom Cruise will be sold as a limited edition print and poster to benefit Gilda's Club, an organization that provides free emotional, social and community support for people living with cancer.
Gilda's Club online offers cancer resources and information on how to connect with others, as well as a Spanish-speaking version of the website for the Latino community.
Artist McKenzie, commissioned to create an original painting of Cruise for her celebrity series, calls the new work
Intrepidity.
The release of the limited edition print and poster coincides with the premiere opening of Cruise's latest movie this week -- Mission Impossible 3. A portion of the profits from each of McKenzie's newest paintings have been donated to a specific charity. She said she chose Tom Cruise as the subject of her painting to benefit cancer charity because of his strength and temerity in the face of adversity. "It seems so fitting that part of the profits from the painting will go to a cancer charity where strength and fortitude seem often to be the difference between life and death." You can view more of McKenzie's art, and purchase her work, at
McKenzie.
Posted Apr 20th 2006 7:00AM by Dalene Entenmann
Filed under: Alternative Therapies, Prevention
According to Max Pemberton, Tom Cruise should stick to acting and stop going around speaking as an expert on
mental health. Pemberton, a mental health professional who pens The Telegraph's
Trust
Me I'm a Junior Doctor column, was motivated to put on his investigative journalist hat and go see for himself what
Scientology had to say about depression. I know, this is a cancer-related blog and you might be wondering why I might
be discussing Cruise, Scientology and depression. Wait. Wait until I tell you what Pemberton was told when he arrived
at the central London Scientology headquarters. Because, as Pemberton tells it, Scientology can explain cancer too.
On arriving Pemberton was invited in for a stress test. The woman conducting the test told him he was suffering
from depression caused by a family member or friend. She assured him Scientology could help. She could not tell him
more unless he signed up for a course, but she did assure him that the majority of illnesses, including diabetes,
cancer, schizophrenia and depression, were the result of being suppressed by other people, but this suppression could
be cleared away by Scientology. Oh really? Pemberton goes on to say he learned that Scientologists believe depression
and disease are best alleviated by removing the sufferer's covering of tiny disembodied souls of aliens dispersed by
the Galactic Federation leader Xenu. Nah -- no way. You cannot tell me that ten million Scientologists believe this is
the cause of diseases like cancer. Do they? I invite any Scientologist who might wander by here to chime in and clarify
this matter. In the meantime, Pemberton's first person account of his experience at the Scientology headquarters, and
the Scientology explanation for the cause of diseases including cancer -- leaves me feeling depressed.
