{"id":434,"date":"2009-05-19T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T11:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/cancer-in-the-news.html"},"modified":"2009-05-19T11:57:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T11:57:52","slug":"cancer-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/cancer-in-the-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Cancer in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t it seem like some days, news headlines are dominated by cancer?&nbsp; Here&#8217;s what jumped off the screen today&#8211;two stories that highlight the tragedy and bravery, the horror and human triumph, of the disease:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <b>A 10-Year-Old with Breast Cancer<\/b> &#8211; Hannah Powell-Auslam is going through something no pre-teen ever imagines: treatments for breast cancer.&nbsp; She&#8217;s undergone a mastectomy and is looking at chemotherapy to treat the cancer that spread to her lymph nodes.&nbsp; This brave girl told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2009\/05\/19\/earlyshow\/health\/main5024777.shtml\">CBS Early Show<\/a>, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to set an example. If there&#8217;s something wrong with your body, you tell your parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <b>Farrah Fawcett Continues to Fight<\/b> &#8211; The actress is battling a rare form of the disease, anal cancer, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/05\/19\/lkl.farrah.fawcett\/\">according to CNN<\/a> affects only 5,000 people a year in the United States.&nbsp; Click here for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/30749929\/\">MSNBC article<\/a> about her brave documentary, or to watch the entire piece.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doesn&#8217;t it seem like some days, news headlines are dominated by cancer?&nbsp; Here&#8217;s what jumped off the screen today&#8211;two stories that highlight the tragedy and bravery, the horror and human triumph, of the disease: &#8212; A 10-Year-Old with Breast Cancer &#8211; Hannah Powell-Auslam is going through something no pre-teen ever imagines: treatments for breast cancer.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,28],"tags":[484,483],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-current-events","category-health","tag-10-year-old-with-breast-cancer","tag-farrah-fawcett"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cancer in the News - Fresh Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/05\/cancer-in-the-news.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cancer in the News - Fresh Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Doesn&#8217;t it seem like some days, news headlines are dominated by cancer?&nbsp; 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