Rob Ford, former Toronto mayor, dies from cancer at 46

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Rob Ford, 46, seemed like an unstoppable political force, but the Toronto city councillor and former mayor could not beat cancer.
Rob Ford, the Toronto city councillor who became the world’s most famous mayor during a wild, scandal-filled term, is dead at age 46.
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Celine Dion"s brother Daniel on death bed just hours after husband Rene Angelil"s death

Just hours after her husband Rene Angelil lost his battle with cancer, we have learned that Celine Dion’s brother is now fighting for his life …
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Taylor Swift donates $50,000 to her backup dancer"s nephew who is fighting cancer

http://i2.wp.com/www.nollywoodfreaks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/149.jpg?fit=1024%2C1024 Superstar singer is busy playing sold-out concerts around the world, but she recently found time to make a difference in a young cancer patient’s life.
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12-year-old schoolgirl hangs herself after losing mother to cancer

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Taylor Swift donates $50, 000 to 11-year-old fan with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia— See Pic

This won’t be the first time Taylor is lending a helping hand.

11-year-old Naomi Oakes counts the blond superstar Taylor Swift as her favorite singer and was planning to attend Swift’s Aug. 18 concert with her best friend in Phoenix but plans changed when she was diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia on June 25 and learned that she needs aggressive treatment resulting in her not being able to leave the hospital for six to nine months.

Naomi chose Swift’s “Bad Blood” as her fight song and is preparing to face the cancer head-on.

Her family made an inspiring video telling Naomi’s story and her love for Swift in an attempt to reach the singer. In the video, they ask the “Taylor Nation” to help spread the word on social media, and it was a success!

Two days after the video was uploaded to YouTube, Taylor Swift generously donated $50,000 to Naomi’s GoFundMe page writing,

“To the beautiful and brave Naomi, I’m sorry you have to miss it, but there will always be more concerts. Let’s focus on getting you feeling better. I’m sending the biggest hugs to you and your family.” Get well Naomi!

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Teenage girl who was told to "stop Googling" cancer that eventually killed her left heartbreaking messages begging doctors to take her seriously

 

19 year old Bronte Doyne begged doctors to take her seriously in a series of desperate messages written shortly before she died of a rare cancer that doctors told her she didn’t have and should stop googling about. A frustrated Bronte said she was ‘fed up of trusting’ medics who refused to accept she was dying. She eventually died in March 2013, 16 months after she developed fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma, a rare form of liver cancer which only affects 200 people a year worldwide.

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The teenager had an operation in September 2011 to remove the cancer and was told she would make a full recovery, but online research in America told her that FBC often returns.

But ‘aloof and evasive’ doctors at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) treated her with ‘woeful lack of care and empathy’ and refused to accept this and told her to ‘stop Googling’.

In a text weeks before she died she said: ‘Need answers. Want to know what’s going on. Something’s not right. I’m sick of this’.

And days before she died she wrote: ‘Can’t begin to tell you how it feels to have to tell an oncologist they are wrong. I had to, I’m fed up of trusting them’.

Today Bronte’s mother Lorraine Doyne (pictured right)  has made the messages public to reveal her daughter’s plight.

She said: ‘Bronte was denied pain relief, referrals were hugely delayed and efforts by her family to gather information and understand Bronte’s prognosis were handled in an evasive and aloof manner

HHer fears that her symptoms over the preceding months before she died were cancer-related were proved right.

‘The messages from Bronte are all her own words and I believe that’s more powerful for people to understand what she went through.

She added: ‘I want to see changes and action now.’

She and her daughter were forced to do their own research online, but doctors dismissed their fears.

Mrs Doyne said: ‘We had no information forthcoming and the only sources we found were through our own research.

‘We found a website for the Fibrolamellar Cancer Foundation, which is based in the United States, and it included an international forum.

‘It’s not just some pathetic website on Google, it’s been endorsed by the White House in publications, and was the only contact we had to get some awareness about this disease. But that information was dismissed here. I told the clinician that I knew what was happening to my daughter and something needed to be done but I was just told to “stop Googling”. 

Bronte was first admitted to hospital in September 2011 with suspected appendicitis, and was told she had fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma shortly after turning 18.

Over a 16-month period, she was told by doctors that she would survive the disease and had nothing to worry about after having an operation to remove a section of her liver in December.

But Bronte and her family knew through their own online research that there was a high chance the cancer would return and eventually claim her life, which it did on March 23, 2013.

The NHS trust who treated her has now promised to embrace the ‘internet age’ – and accept patients use the internet to research their illnesses –  and admitted: ‘We did not listen with sufficient attention’.

Bronte’s tweets, text messages and personal diary entries reveal her fears about death because doctors were not taking her condition seriously.

These were all passed to the hospital as part of a complaint after her death.

In a diary entry less than a month before her death : ‘Mum tried to talk to my consultant but he didn’t give her much help. She even had to ask him when I was going to get my appointment for the oncologist. Really don’t think he likes my mum asking questions.’

She also wrote she was advised by her GP to go to hospital as an emergency case when her symptoms worsened about six weeks before her death, but was told she could not been seen.

She wrote: ‘I got so angry because the doctor was so rude and just shrugged his shoulders.

‘He gave me a sarcastic comment like you can sleep here if you want but they won’t do anything. So I just have to wait for another hospital appointment.’

In a tweet before her death she also warned: ‘My body does not feel very good #helpme.’

After she was diagnosed, Bronte wrote in her diary: ‘I have cancer. I’m scared. Mum rang keyworker. Need to know what this is. He doesn’t know much. Help me.’

She underwent liver resection surgery in December 2011.

Seven months later, after doctors had told her she was fine, she tweeted: ‘My body does not feel very good #helpme.’

Then, in November 2012, Bronte wrote in her diary: ‘Feeling sick for months now. Tired of this feeling c***. Hospital not worried so trying to get on with it.’

The teenager texted friends saying that doctors referred to how she ‘had’ cancer in the past and advised her not to relate symptoms to the disease.

Her fears about feeling like ‘something’s not right’ were ignored, as she said a doctor claimed her weight loss was a result of her being ‘part of a skinny family’.

Bronte was eventually referred to the Hogarth Ward, a Teenage Cancer Trust unit, where she stayed for 10 days before she died – after 16 months of being told she would be fine.

 

Source: UK Daily Mail

Teenage girl who was told to "stop Googling" cancer that eventually killed her left heartbreaking messages begging doctors to take her seriously

WTF? Doctor mistakes Tattoo ink for cancer, removes woman"s uterus, cervix, Fallopian tubes and pelvic lymph nodes

When a California woman with cervical cancer underwent a body image scan, doctors noticed bright areas in her lymph nodes, suggesting her cancer had spread. But it was only after surgery to treat the cancer that they realized the real reason for those bright spots: her tattoos.

The 32-year-old woman with four children had recently been diagnosed with cervical cancer. In November 2012, her doctors requested the imaging scan to check to see if the cancer had spread (metastasized) to other parts of her body.

“Findings of possible metastatic disease on PET scans can certainly change management,” Eskander said. “We want to make sure that people understand that these false positives could arise in patients that have tattoos,” he said.

The researchers did find that the woman had a small number of cancer cells in one of her pelvic lymph nodes, a condition that doctors call a “micro metastasis.” But this micro metastasis was too small to have shown up on the PET scan, so it was only by chance that the doctors found it, Eskander said.

The type of scan the doctors wanted was a PET/CT fusion scan, which combines technology from both PET and CT scans, and requires that patients receive an injection of a radioactive tracer that makes tumors appear as bright spots on the scan.

The scan showed not only the woman’s cervical tumor, but also bright spots on the lymph nodes in her pelvis, which looked suspiciously like cancer metastases, the researchers wrote in their report of her case, published in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.

To treat her cervical cancer, the woman had surgery to remove her uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes and pelvic lymph nodes.

But when doctors later examined cells from the woman’s lymph nodes under a microscope, they saw that the cells contained deposits of tattoo ink — not cancer. The woman had more than 14 tattoos on her legs.

“Those lymph nodes that were lighting up brightly on the PET scan were doing so because of the tattoo pigment that was in the lymph nodes,” said study co-author Dr. Ramez Eskander, assistant clinical professor of gynecologic oncology at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center, who treated the woman.

There have previously been reports of tattoo ink spreading to people’s lymph nodes and showing up on PET scans in patients with other cancer including breast cancer and melanoma. But this appears to be the first case reported in a patient with cervical cancer, Eskander said.

In this woman’s case, seeing the brightly lit lymph nodes did not change the doctors’ surgical plan, Eskander said. But it’s important that doctors are aware that extensive tattoos could look like cancer on PET scans, because this could change the way they treat a patient. For example, if a doctor is convinced that a patient has metastatic cancer, he or she may suggest that the patient undergo chemotherapy and radiation right away, rather than surgery, Eskander said.

The woman didn’t have any complications after her surgery, and she was allowed to leave the hospital after three days. She is now doing very well and doesn’t have any evidence of cancer recurrence, Eskander said.

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Amazing Story: When you beat cancer twice...and then graduate from High School

Read and be Inspired! This young lady (Pictured above) on twitter beat cancer twice and also graduated from her High School. Beautiful story!

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