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On September 7th, Hollywood once again decided to Stand Up to Cancer (S↑2C). The third biennial telethon aired commercial-free simultaneously on ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, BIO, E!, ENCORE, HBO, HBO Latino, ION Television, LMN (Lifetime Movie Network), Logo, MLB Network, mun2, Palladia, SHOWTIME, Smithsonian Channel, STARZ, STYLE, TBS and VH1 on, Sept 7th, at 8 pm [...]
Good Morning America co-host Robin Roberts is having a roller coaster year. At the same time that GMA beat the Today show in the weekly ratings war for the first time in over 16 years, 51-year-old Roberts got the news that she was suffering from a blood and bone marrow disorder. Roberts was diagnosed with [...]
“YOU HAVE CANCER.” These have to be some of the most gut-wrenching words a person can hear. Especially if you have been in remission after a particularly difficult treatment regimen that included a stem cell transplant. What would you think then? Would your answer be…? I’m not a failure. There are millions of people out [...]
Spartacus actor Andy Whitfield, 26, was recently diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In the year we’ve been blogging about “common diseases affecting uncommon people,” we’ve written about seven other public figures besides Mr. Whitfield that have cancers of the lymphoid system, including Hodgkin’s Disease. Now is a good opportunity to review and summarize the other cases and challenge our readers to tell us the differences between these two types of cancer and why these differences matter.
Good news this week for two celebrities we have followed on this blog. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is reporting on his website that he is now cancer-free after successful treatment for prostate cancer. He is also using the opportunity to raise awareness about the disease in the hope that others will also be diagnosed early: [...]
Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn has been fighting a difficult battle with Hodgkins Lymphoma the last nine months. After his initial rounds of radiation and chemotherapy failed to put him into remission, Zohn opted for a high dose radiation treatment followed by a stem-cell transplant. Now that his radiation therapy is completed, doctors did a [...]
We are certainly glad to see that Survivor contestant Ethan Zohn is keeping his sense of humor during this difficult time of his Hodgkin’s lymphoma treatment. He is just about the start the most grueling of the regimen where he get multiple rounds of radiation therapy, followed by a stem cell transplant. In the video [...]
Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in April 2009. Since that time, Ethan has been reporting his progress throughout his therapy in a video diary for People magazine. This summer, he had finished chemo and was feeling pretty good. However, at the end of August, Zohn heard the news no cancer [...]
The winner of Survivor: Africa, Ethan Zohn, plans to be a survivor again. This time, however, the battle isn’t against other contestants, but within his own body. Ethan was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Disease on April 30th. As he told People magazine, “This is the ultimate game of Survivor,and there’s really only one outcome, and that’s [...]
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