Belinda Stronach battling breast cancer
Sat, 2007-06-23 06:39
#1
Belinda Stronach battling breast cancer
Sat, 2007-06-23 06:39
#2
Wasn't sure where to post it, but since it involves breast cancer and Stronach has been pilloried, in part, on sexist grounds figured this was ok.
[url=http://www.thestar.com]the star[/url]
I've linked to the main page - weirdness when I try to pinpoint the article itself.
quote:
Stronach, 41, has been waging the fight in strictest privacy for the past couple of months, almost since the moment that she announced earlier this year that she was leaving politics to return to her executive duties at the auto-parts empire founded by her father, Frank Stronach.But word has started to spread quietly this week among Stronach's close friends and associates, none of whom wanted to speak on the record about her diagnosis and treatment.
[ 23 June 2007: Message edited by: pookie ]
Sat, 2007-06-23 06:50
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remind
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Stronach... has been waging the fight in strictest privacy for the past couple of months, almost since the moment that she announced earlier this year that she was leaving politics
Well, that explains why she is leaving politics.
My best wishes go out to her and one would hope her fight is a successful one.
Sat, 2007-06-23 08:06
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N.Beltov
The CBC's Wendy Mesley, following her diagnosis, did a series of stories and shows covering her struggle with breast cancer. The toxic world of unassessed environmental pollutants and so on was exposed in her journey of healing and discovery. It was very educational to go along with her in that journey.
Breast cancer among women is like the proverbial canary in a coal mine for all of us. It is a warning signal that something deeper is wrong with our society.
[url=http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer/]CBC Marketplace: chasing the cancer answer.[/url]
[img]http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/health/cancer/gfx/titlephoto.jp...
[b]Mesley giving blood.[/b]
Wendey Mesley showed that blaming the patient is easier than prevention. She also showed that cancer drugs and treatment is big business. We need more journalists like this one.
[ 23 June 2007: Message edited by: N.Beltov ]
Sat, 2007-06-23 09:56
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Well, that explains why she is leaving politics.
Actually, the article says that she announced her retirement from politics BEFORE she went for a mammogram and got the news.
Sat, 2007-06-23 10:22
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remind
Stand corrected, I had read the first part only and had presumed that it was so. Thanks.
Sun, 2007-06-24 11:49
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Hopefully her treatment is a success.
Sun, 2007-06-24 13:59
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Breast cancer among women is like the proverbial canary in a coal mine for all of us. It is a warning signal that something deeper is wrong with our society.
[img]eek.gif" border="0[/img] I'll say! With the dominance of all kinds of carcinogens in our food, air and water, sometimes I wonder how all of us aren't sick with the "C" disease.
It just goes to show, in a way, how incongruent class dictatorship with human nature and realities--since no matter how rich, powerful, well-connected a person is, they still aren't bullet proof and are subject to the same risks as everyone else.
Stronach isn't that old. As someone who's known too many people who have died of cancer, the thing that scares me about it is that it seems to be impervious to just about anything: anyone can get some kind of it; at any age, regardless of who you are or how well you take care of yourself--and once you get it the chances of survival or full recovery aren't that great, as the treatments are not that secure and sometimes are as painful as the disease itself.
Of course, there have been great improvements over the years, and many of the treatments are less invasive than before and the survival rate is higher than before. But it seems more and more people are at risk every year and more and more people do seem to get some form of it.
It seems to be developing into a sort of plague of its own—a disease that knows no boundaries, from which there is no fairly assured protection or cure--the one boogieman that’s actually real.
I hope her treatments go well. But the fact that someone as young and seemingly as healthy as her could get it is pretty unnerving.