Lung cancer etiquette: Thanks for not asking if I smoked
US News & World Report - Mar 08 3:01 PM
The death of Dana Reeve, Christopher Reeve’s widow, from lung cancer has focused attention on the disease she was diagnosed with less than a year ago. Reeve, like 15 percent of people diagnosed with lung cancer, was a nonsmoker. But the usual assumption that victims somehow “asked for it” by smoking has created an unfair stigma, says Lori Hope, a lung cancer survivor and author of Help Me Live: Save to My Web
Dana Reeve dies of lung cancer at 44
Baltimore Sun - Mar 07 3:34 PM
Widow of Christopher Reeve helped fight for treatment, cures for paralysis Dana Reeve, an actress whose days of sunny fame with her star husband Christopher turned into an odyssey of tragedy and hope, has died of lung cancer at the age of 44. Save to My Web
Superman’s widow Dana Reeve gives in to lung cancer
EARTHtimes.org - Mar 08 6:08 AM
On Monday, Dana Reeve, wife of late actor Christopher Reeve, succumbed to lung cancer at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan the age of 44. Dana, an actress and singer by profession, assumed the role of her husband’s caregiver after a horse-riding accident in 1995 left the actor, noted for his role of Superman, paralyzed.Save to My Web
Lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer
WIS-TV Columbia - Mar 08 5:45 PM
(Columbia) March 7, 2006 - Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women. More people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined.Save to My Web
Who Are Lung Cancer’s Victims?
CBS News - Mar 08 6:05 AM
Lung cancer, which killed actor Christopher Reeve’s widow, Dana, this week, is the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths for men and women alike. It can affect both smokers and non-smokers, like Dana.Save to My Web
Lung Cancer Caring Ambassadors Program Issues Statement on the Death of Dana Reeve
RedNova - Mar 08 4:59 PM
The Lung Cancer Caring Ambassadors Program (LCCAP), a national nonprofit organization providing information and encouragement to people with lung cancer, and raising lung cancer awareness, is deeply saddened to learn of the death of actress Dana Reeve and sends heartfelt condolences to Ms.Save to My Web