IcedTeaRulz
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Sad to hear...Goodbye, Dana. 
Dana Reeve, widow of actor Christopher Reeve
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I hears the 13 years old son Will is going to stay with a family friend.
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Breaking my heart goes out for her son alone.. He'll going staying w/his relatives family (next kin)..
Dana reunion seeing her husband in the heaven.
Dana reunion seeing her husband in the heaven.
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It shocked!! I dont want to believe that shes gone but shes REALLY gone. sigh!! I still couldnt believe it. RIP Dana. I felt so bad for Will, he lost both good parents so soon.
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Just found out about this 10 minutes ago. I was so so shocked! Damn! She was in high spirits to beat lung cancer. She lost the battle to that. Oh dear.
I feel so bad for her son. He lost his father and now his mother. Gosh!
RIP, Dana Reeves! RIP!
I feel so bad for her son. He lost his father and now his mother. Gosh!
RIP, Dana Reeves! RIP!
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age 44 is a real young age...
wow, and she doesn't smoke either, what happen to her, why
she got lung cancer? How?
wow, and she doesn't smoke either, what happen to her, why
she got lung cancer? How?
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The*Empress said:
We will never know. I knew someone who died of lung cancer a month ago and she was only 56.
Another friend of mine just finished chemotherapy for lung cancer. She doesnt know if she will beat it or not.
It does not happen to only smokers - it can happen to ANYONE.
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AngelWolf
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Yea heard abt that from other site... gosh, hard to belive that young!! Gosh... she has been thru alot of love with her late husband for so long... so now she is with him in heaven..... U, Dana, have had a good life with him and u had a lot of cared of him so long since that happened.....but u are too young to go but seem ur time was up since u are so good to everyone in ur life.... go fly with "Superman" Dana go fly! Rest in peace dear.... -|- goodbye Dana...
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My co-worker told me about it this morning and my jaw just dropped. I was in total disbelief for awhile. I just couldn't believe it. I am so sad that she is actually gone. I admire her for who she was and her strength in care of her late husband. I feel terrible for the 13 year old son because both parents and grandmother are gone in couple of years. I'll always remember the Reeves. Farewell and rest in peace.
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yeah I heard about this which it shocked me today. I am sure she will be with Christopher in the heaven 
. now they are not in the pain anymore. hope 13 yrs old son with parents's family . Miss them
. now they are not in the pain anymore. hope 13 yrs old son with parents's family . Miss them WhisperHorse
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Awww Rest in Peace, Dana Reeve with her wonderful husband, Christopher Reeve.
I hope to seeing their son go throught that to being fine since he lose his parents
Rest in Peace, Dana Reeve with her wonderful husband, Christopher Reeve. I hope to seeing their son go throught that to being fine since he lose his parents
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i saw on Larry King about that Dana Reeve but she really wonderful woman and she caring as wife and mother.
she aint smoking! and she already got lung cancer im really shock about her oh my gosh!
im been smoking for 6 years but i never have lung cancer NEVER because i have lung surgery in 1993 since i was 12 years old and im got to quit that smoking that my VOWS! after i got surgery from my lung and my doctor look of my x-ray looks clean and no lung cancer very LUCKY! mostly doctors look x-ray and got spot of lung about lung cancer they tell patient about that! im tell you the truth! and throw the smoking in the trash or quit! that choice! but i did quit smoking i told my mom and my grandmother about that its my decide.
you know lung cancer can killed any million and thousand of people who are smoking and not smoking.
im sure her son will stay with their family maybe grandparents parent of chris's or with step-sister and step-brother when parents were gone.
who are celebration got fundraiser for lung cancer who are remind about that!
my mom's aunt died from ovarian cancer when she was 7 years old its really longtime ago.
Dana Reeve Dies of Cancer at 44
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1170533,00.html
Friends Remember Dana Reeve
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1170754,00.html
Courageous Dana loses lung cancer battle
http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2006/03/07/danareeve/
she aint smoking! and she already got lung cancer im really shock about her oh my gosh!
im been smoking for 6 years but i never have lung cancer NEVER because i have lung surgery in 1993 since i was 12 years old and im got to quit that smoking that my VOWS! after i got surgery from my lung and my doctor look of my x-ray looks clean and no lung cancer very LUCKY! mostly doctors look x-ray and got spot of lung about lung cancer they tell patient about that! im tell you the truth! and throw the smoking in the trash or quit! that choice! but i did quit smoking i told my mom and my grandmother about that its my decide.
you know lung cancer can killed any million and thousand of people who are smoking and not smoking.
im sure her son will stay with their family maybe grandparents parent of chris's or with step-sister and step-brother when parents were gone.
who are celebration got fundraiser for lung cancer who are remind about that!
my mom's aunt died from ovarian cancer when she was 7 years old its really longtime ago.
Dana Reeve Dies of Cancer at 44
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1170533,00.html
Friends Remember Dana Reeve
http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1170754,00.html
Courageous Dana loses lung cancer battle
http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/2006/03/07/danareeve/
Lung Cancer More Prevalent Among Young, Non-Smoking Women
INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis doctor says lung cancer is afflicting younger, non-smoking women at an alarming rate.
Dr. Larry Einhorn, of Indiana University's School of Medicine, said Dana Reeve, who died Monday, did not fit the typical profile of a lung cancer patient.
Einhorn, a world-renowned oncologist who is best known for treating cyclist Lance Armstrong's cancer a few years ago, told Indianapolis television station WRTV he never treated non-smoking women with lung cancer 30 years ago, but it is becoming more prevalent today.
Einhorn said he has recently treated many women under 50 who are battling the disease, some of them in their 20s. Like Reeve, those women are not and never were smokers.
Einhorn said the cause for the disturbing trend isn't completely clear, but he believes second-hand smoke is a factor.
"The same amount of tobacco exposure is more likely to lead to the changes that cause lung cancer in a woman than the male counterpart who gets the same second-hand exposure. Now, why that is, no one knows," Einhorn said. "It's sometimes too easy to say that this could be due to second-hand smoke. Probably some of the cases are due to second-hand smoke, but I would guess that the majority of them are unknown as to why these young healthy women like Dana Reeve develop this terrible disease and then succumb to lung cancer."
Lung cancer kills about 15,000 non-smoking women each year, WRTV reported.
INDIANAPOLIS -- An Indianapolis doctor says lung cancer is afflicting younger, non-smoking women at an alarming rate.
Dr. Larry Einhorn, of Indiana University's School of Medicine, said Dana Reeve, who died Monday, did not fit the typical profile of a lung cancer patient.
Einhorn, a world-renowned oncologist who is best known for treating cyclist Lance Armstrong's cancer a few years ago, told Indianapolis television station WRTV he never treated non-smoking women with lung cancer 30 years ago, but it is becoming more prevalent today.
Einhorn said he has recently treated many women under 50 who are battling the disease, some of them in their 20s. Like Reeve, those women are not and never were smokers.
Einhorn said the cause for the disturbing trend isn't completely clear, but he believes second-hand smoke is a factor.
"The same amount of tobacco exposure is more likely to lead to the changes that cause lung cancer in a woman than the male counterpart who gets the same second-hand exposure. Now, why that is, no one knows," Einhorn said. "It's sometimes too easy to say that this could be due to second-hand smoke. Probably some of the cases are due to second-hand smoke, but I would guess that the majority of them are unknown as to why these young healthy women like Dana Reeve develop this terrible disease and then succumb to lung cancer."
Lung cancer kills about 15,000 non-smoking women each year, WRTV reported.
The*Empress said:
Stress caused many health problems. Who knows, it is possible she had alot stress dealing with her husband's problems. Her body worn out from it and cancer invaded her body. It happened to my husband's aunt whom she took care of her ill husband for few years then he died, she finally got breast cancer few months later and she died.. She went thru alot of stress and she forgot to take care of herself.
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Sigh gotta miss this wonderful lady. RIP Dana Keeves.
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Dana's lung cancer may play a role in genetic
Dana's lung cancer may play a role in genetic related to breast and ovarian cancers. If you have a family history of breast cancer or ovarian cancer or both, then lung cancer might be another genetic. It's a big disappointed one and it is very scary.
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Female Non-Smokers Suffer Disproportionately
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
(March 8) -- The death of Dana Reeve on Monday serves as a reminder of one of lung cancer's tragic truths.
"If there was no smoking, there would still be lung cancer," says University of Pittsburgh lung cancer researcher Jill Siegfried. In fact, she says, even if no American ever smoked, lung cancer would still be the fourth-most-commonly diagnosed malignancy in the USA.
And 85% of non-smokers diagnosed with lung cancer - including, by all accounts, Reeve - are women, Siegfried says. One out of five women with lung cancer never smoked, compared with one out of 10 men with lung cancer.
In general, fewer women than men smoke, but that doesn't fully explain why lung cancer patients who never smoked are overwhelmingly female, Siegfried says.
Although lung cancer kills about 15,000 female non-smokers in the USA each year, "when many people, both doctors and non-doctors, think about lung cancer, the face they see is an older, smoking man," says Joan Schiller, a lung cancer doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Frustrated with the lack of attention to women with lung cancer, Schiller founded Women Against Lung Cancer four years ago; she is the organization's president.
Schiller notes that women represent about 40% of lung cancer patients, "and nobody talks about it or wants to talk about it."
Researchers have only recently begun investigating why women who have never smoked are more likely to develop lung cancer than their male counterparts. Studies of mice suggest that estrogen may play a role, Schiller says.
About 95% of lung cancers in both sexes have estrogen receptors, Siegfried says. She and Schiller are involved in research looking at whether Faslodex, an anti-estrogen drug used to treat metastatic breast cancers that contain estrogen receptors, might be effective against metastatic lung cancers in women.
Genetics also might play a role in lung cancer risk. Just months before Reeve was diagnosed, her mother died of ovarian cancer. Siegfried says her research has found a disproportionate number of breast and ovarian cancers among the relatives of women with lung cancer.
Lung cancer itself appears to run in the Scarangello family. Joan Scarangello McNeive never smoked, but she died in 2001 at age 47, just nine months after she was diagnosed with lung cancer. McNeive died 20 years after her mother, who also never smoked, died at age 50, also just nine months after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
When McNeive was diagnosed, her family realized that "nothing had changed in 20 years," says her brother's wife, Roxanne Donovan, a founding board member of Joan's Legacy, a New York-based non-profit group that has awarded $1.3 million for lung cancer research.
"There was nothing they could do for Joan," Donovan says. "There was nothing they could do for her mother."
Dana's lung cancer may play a role in genetic related to breast and ovarian cancers. If you have a family history of breast cancer or ovarian cancer or both, then lung cancer might be another genetic. It's a big disappointed one and it is very scary.
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Female Non-Smokers Suffer Disproportionately
By Rita Rubin, USA TODAY
(March 8) -- The death of Dana Reeve on Monday serves as a reminder of one of lung cancer's tragic truths.
"If there was no smoking, there would still be lung cancer," says University of Pittsburgh lung cancer researcher Jill Siegfried. In fact, she says, even if no American ever smoked, lung cancer would still be the fourth-most-commonly diagnosed malignancy in the USA.
And 85% of non-smokers diagnosed with lung cancer - including, by all accounts, Reeve - are women, Siegfried says. One out of five women with lung cancer never smoked, compared with one out of 10 men with lung cancer.
In general, fewer women than men smoke, but that doesn't fully explain why lung cancer patients who never smoked are overwhelmingly female, Siegfried says.
Although lung cancer kills about 15,000 female non-smokers in the USA each year, "when many people, both doctors and non-doctors, think about lung cancer, the face they see is an older, smoking man," says Joan Schiller, a lung cancer doctor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Frustrated with the lack of attention to women with lung cancer, Schiller founded Women Against Lung Cancer four years ago; she is the organization's president.
Schiller notes that women represent about 40% of lung cancer patients, "and nobody talks about it or wants to talk about it."
Researchers have only recently begun investigating why women who have never smoked are more likely to develop lung cancer than their male counterparts. Studies of mice suggest that estrogen may play a role, Schiller says.
About 95% of lung cancers in both sexes have estrogen receptors, Siegfried says. She and Schiller are involved in research looking at whether Faslodex, an anti-estrogen drug used to treat metastatic breast cancers that contain estrogen receptors, might be effective against metastatic lung cancers in women.
Genetics also might play a role in lung cancer risk. Just months before Reeve was diagnosed, her mother died of ovarian cancer. Siegfried says her research has found a disproportionate number of breast and ovarian cancers among the relatives of women with lung cancer.
Lung cancer itself appears to run in the Scarangello family. Joan Scarangello McNeive never smoked, but she died in 2001 at age 47, just nine months after she was diagnosed with lung cancer. McNeive died 20 years after her mother, who also never smoked, died at age 50, also just nine months after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
When McNeive was diagnosed, her family realized that "nothing had changed in 20 years," says her brother's wife, Roxanne Donovan, a founding board member of Joan's Legacy, a New York-based non-profit group that has awarded $1.3 million for lung cancer research.
"There was nothing they could do for Joan," Donovan says. "There was nothing they could do for her mother."