Airhead FARRAH FAWCETT Died From VANITY! Refused Treatment To SaveHer ... HAIR! What An Asshole!

"Farrah Fawcett's cancer is rare but deadly"

By Fred Tasker | McClatchy-Tribune Information Services
June 25, 2009


MIAMI -- After a lifetime of Hollywood success, actress Farrah Fawcett
had the misfortune to die from one of the rarest malignancies, anal
cancer.

It's a cancer that struck 5,070 Americans in 2008, compared with
40,740 cases of rectal cancer, 108,070 cases of colon cancer, 184,450
cases of breast cancer and 215,020 cases of lung cancer.

It's so rare, doctors say, that many caregivers don't routinely screen
for it and many patients don't notice it until it reaches advanced
stages.

"Early on, the patient often doesn't feel anything or know anything,"
said Dr. Michael Hellinger, colorectal surgeon at Mt. Sinai Hospital
in Miami Beach. "As it advances, with rectal bleeding, a little lump,
people sometimes think it's hemorrhoids."

The survival rate drops to 60 percent if it has spread to surrounding
lymph nodes, 20 percent if it spreads to lungs, liver or other organs.
The anus is the opening at the lower end of the digestive tract
through which solid waste is excreted. Above it is the rectum, then
the colon.

Among patients under 50, anal cancer is more common in men; after 50,
it is more common in women. It occurs more often in smokers, people
who have many sexual partners, have receptive anal intercourse or have
a weakened immune system, the American Cancer Society says.

Some doctors believe that means it's more common among men who have
sex with men and have anal intercourse, Hellinger says. "But that's
never been statistically proven. Studies have never been done to look
at that."

Another cause can be chronic infection with the human papilloma virus,
in both men and women. HPV can be spread by either straight or gay
sex, Hellinger said. And while it can be slowed among women who take
the HPV vaccine to avoid cervical cancer, the vaccine never has been
studied in men, and men are not routinely vaccinated.

When anal cancer is diagnosed, the standard care is chemotherapy and
radiation. Until the 1970s the standard treatment was a "radical
abdominal perineal resection," Hellinger said, in which the entire
rectum and anal canal are removed, requiring the patient to wear an
external colostomy bag.

In her TV program, "Farrah's Story," videotaped by Fawcett and her
friends and broadcast on NBC on May 15, she made two statements that
have led some to question her decisions about her own care.

First, she says her UCLA doctors wanted to do the radical surgery
after the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes and liver. Instead, she
traveled to Germany and found a surgeon willing to remove the tumor
without the wider operation.

Second, until the final months, she insisted that any chemotherapy she
was given involved drugs that would not cause her famous hair to fall
out.

Hellinger declined to speculate on those decisions.

"It's impossible to judge without more information," he said.

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The only thing NOT fake on Farrah was her anus, and that did her in.

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:10:19 -0700, Lykmi Pusi wrote:

> The only thing NOT fake on Farrah was her anus, and that did her in.

Though most people may feel that vanity is disposable, someone who's
world revolved around it should not be criticized for their decision.
There have been several suicides of Colorectal cancer survivors over
their ostomy much less someone such as Ms. Fawcett who would also have
had both a Colo and a urostomy.

For some people, (not me) death is a viable option to gross disfigurement
or a mental disease.

The reason Farrah got anal cancer is because she
lived with an ASS HOLE for most of her life.