Willow Ridge student sees past cancer to her future in sports
Lansing State Journal Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:55 AM PDT
Jacalyn Wilkes a third grader at Willow Ridge Elementary was excited to get a surprise visit from MSU Women's Tennis Coaches, Simone Jardim and Tyler Faulkner because tennis will be one of the few sports Jacalyn will be able to play when she grows up. |
Breast cancer forces many to make tough choices
The Indianapolis Star Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:55 AM PDT
Breast cancer was not the first illness that Mamata Patel and Deanna Dewberry weathered. In her early 20s, Dewberry struggled through two bouts of blood cancer. Patel survived a brain aneurysm four years before she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 |
When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendael
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:53 AM PDT
A superb graphic account of a family coping with cancer is moving without being mawkish When I read the words "a moving story about cancer, and its effect on one ordinary family", my instinct, whether staring at a movie poster or the jacket of a paperback, is to run a mile. I dread mawkishness the way some people fear blue cheese or spiders. So I was trepidatious when I opened Belgian comic ... |
When I Die by Philip Gould
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:53 AM PDT
This missive from the deathbed of the New Labour strategist is brave, frank and moving. So why does it leave our reviewer feeling so uneasy? How do you review a book by someone who has described in detail his oesophageal cancer and his preparations for death, a man who in the later stages of his illness says he is enjoying his death and allows himself to be photographed on the site of his grave ... |
We can't all choose the way we die or how to say goodbye | Rachel Cooke
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:28 AM PDT
Philip Gould's deeply moving video suggests that we can take control of death, but is that always possible? I received an email recently from PR agency Freud Communications. The email urged me to watch on YouTube a short film about the Labour peer and strategist Philip Gould, who died of esophageal cancer in November 2011. The film, When I Die , was made in the last fortnight of Gould's life ... |
'Running in this London marathon is a way of dealing with my mum's death'
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:26 AM PDT
Jamie Doward's mother died from cancer at the age of 56. For her son, running has become an almost religious experience â€" and a way of dealing with his anger and grief Last Wednesday morning, in the unlikely setting of the ExCel Centre in London's Docklands, I found myself trying to hold back tears for a woman I have never met, but who was clearly loved. Loitering outside a T-shirt printing ... |
Breast cancer study could lead to new generation of drugs for the disease | Dr Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK
Guardian Unlimited Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:21 AM PDT
We hope that one day drugs will exist for all 10 forms of breast cancer, so a woman need never be told she has the 'wrong' type Breast cancer is a global problem â€" 1.4 million women worldwide are diagnosed each year. Almost 50,000 of them live here in the UK. But thanks to improvements in care, it's also a success story. Eight out of 10 women now survive for five years or more following a ... |
Sleepover for cancer trust
Weston Mercury Sun, 22 Apr 2012 01:18 AM PDT
A PORTISHEAD youth group has raised more than £300 for the Teenage Cancer Trust. |
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