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Fran Drescher opens non-profit organization
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Cancer Schmancer is what actress and cancer survivor Fran Drescher titled her 2003 novel. Now, thanks to this spunky gal, there's a whole Cancer Schmancer movement taking place, a movement that will culminate this June with the launch of a non-profit organization with the name of -- you guessed it -- Cancer Schmancer.
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Happy or sad World Cancer Day?
Published 02/9/2007 in All Cancers , Blood Cancer , Bone Cancer , Brain Cancer , Breast Cancer , Esophageal Cancer , Eye Cancer , Kidney Cancer , Leukemia , Lung Cancer , Multiple Myeloma , Non Hodgkins Lymphoma , Oral Cancer , Ovarian Cancer , Pancreatic Cancer , Pet Cancers , Pregnancy and cancer , Prostate Cancer , Teen Cancers , Testicular Cancer , Throat Cancer , Thymic Cancer , Thyroid Cancer , Tissue Cancers , Tongue Cancer , Uterine Cancer , Young Adult Cancers , Liver Cancer , Cancer events , Pink products , Daily news , Opinion , Saturday Six , Sunday Seven , Head and Neck Cancer | Unrated
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I guess the concept is happy -- the public urging for our world's policy makers to make cancer a top priority -- but the fact that becomes all too apparent on this World Cancer Day is quite sobering. More than seven million people die from cancer and close to 11 million new cases are diagnosed worldwide each year. In 2006, cancer killed more people than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
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Witnessing death both heart breaking, soul strengthening
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I was present for death only one time in my 36 years of life. I consider this both a bad and a good thing. It's bad because I did not want my grandmother to die -- and watching it happen made it so real, so vivid, so painful. I don't think I would have ever chosen to watch my grandma die -- to watch her slip from consciousness to coma, to observe her altered body once death arrived, to witness the movement of her body on a stretcher as it was wheeled out of the house from the bedroom I still see every time I visit my mom's house. But I think I am lucky really -- and this is the good part -- because I got to be with her during her final moments. I got to watch her body as it lay still, peaceful and calm and still breathing. I got to talk to her and although she could not respond, I believe she could hear my words. And it makes me happy to know my grandma may have known I was with just prior to her flight to heaven. And after her flight, I got to touch her cool hands. I got to feel the power of the passing of one life -- a long life -- and I got to feel the comfort of a death that was not ugly or painful or difficult. It was sad -- it's still sad -- that my grandma died three years ago. But what a privilege it was to be part of the day she left this world.
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