What cancer?
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bargainholic — 17 years ago(August 23, 2008 01:31 AM)
I seem to remember our local news stating she was diabetic and I thought she died too young from complications. How sad her closest buds and family couldn't talk her into treatment and being a mom in a less traditional matter. (Adoption, freezing eggs, surrogate mother, etc) RIP, people still care.
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datphoolishboi21 — 18 years ago(August 23, 2007 01:56 PM)
don't remember which one it was, but i do know that she refused to get treatment for it because it would've interefered with either her doin the show or maybe side effects. i just know she refused to get it.
"I don't wanna marry her for her money, but I don't know how else to get it!" -
Jay-Jay-RD — 18 years ago(September 09, 2007 04:06 PM)
She refused treatments because she wanted to have children before she died. Ironically, she died before she could have children.
RIP Judith Eva Barsi
RIP Heather O'Rourke
RIP Jonathan Brandis
RIP Michelle Thomas
RIP Aaliyah -
TGGuy — 18 years ago(October 17, 2007 10:03 AM)
OK, I just read all these posts and they have a lot of conflicting information.
She died of a very rare, very deadly cancer. It's called a desmoplatic small round cell sarcoma and can occur in virtually any part of the body - her's occured in her abdomen (near her stomach and ovaries, which is probably part of the confusion).
It was likely quite large when it was detected, meaning she had a poorer prognosis than most.
Even aggressive treatment with drugs and surgery probably wouldn't have increased her chances of surviving more than 3 years to 20%.
Any patient diagnosed with cancer must choose what treatment they would prefer. The choice for her was no treatment which would mean a couple of years of mostly normal living with an almost certain difficult death at the end versus maybe 3 years of difficult hospital stays, rounds of draining chemotherapy (causing weight loss, hair loss, stomach upset and likely infertility) and only a slight chance she would survive.
Other cancers have a better survival rate with treatment and then patients are more likely to accept the risks and dangers of chemo and surgery.
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eugenelavery — 18 years ago(January 03, 2008 10:16 AM)
She did die of intra-abdominal desmoplastic small round cell tumor. It is a rare form of cancer almost always found in young-adults. It is hard to diagnose as it is often mistaken for ovarian cancer. I think this has led to some thinking she died of ovarian cancer.
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MeNoAngel — 17 years ago(June 02, 2008 11:11 PM)
The tumor didn't grow, it spreaded. She was Diagnosed with the cancer at a very early stage because her Doctor advised her to have her ovaries removed and get treatment which she refused both. In most cases, once the cancer spreads the patient won't have the surgery and they'll just deal with the treatment but the odds of surving are 10 to 20 percent.
Other cases, a person can refuse the surgery in the early prognosis but still get the treatment but there survivial chances are 20 to 40 percent which is better of .
If Michelle would had gotten the treatment in the early stage and had the surgery, she would be alive to this day.
*My Cousin had Stomach Cancer and she was diagnosed with it in December of 2007. At first she refused to have the surgery but her parents forced her to do it while she still can and after months of treatment, she is cancer free as of June 2008. -
Cheddar — 17 years ago(October 26, 2008 08:13 PM)
kb00000002004 said "If Michelle would had gotten the treatment in the early stage and had the surgery, she would be alive to this day."
You can hardly know that. She might be but based on the statistics for that type of cancer, it's a distinct possibility that she wouldn't.
Yes, she would have increased her chances of being alive now if she'd received treatment. But that's as much as you can say with any degree of certainty. -
Tofutti_Klein — 18 years ago(January 24, 2008 07:55 PM)
I can't believe this! I am so late. THIS death breaks my hear, not to mention the fact that I am nearly ten years too late. I grew up watching her on
Family Matters,
and I still watch her on
The Cosby Show
. I can't believe that she and Malcolm were really a couple. I'm shocked and hurt about her death. Heathe, Marc (
Roseanne
) and now MichelleMyra/Justine. Damn it!
Don't blame me for your LIMITED intellect, slow wit, and irrationality. -
danis_girl2 — 17 years ago(January 03, 2009 11:54 PM)
I know that many people want to fault her for her decisions, but if you hear a prognosis that is against your goals in life (ie marriage, college, children) you will often refuse. If her life was going towards marriage and children she would likely (as would I, in those circumstances, refuse treatment if it meant no children and no marriage) have refused to live without. I would refuse to have a possibility of life over a possibility of life without marriage and children. Just know that she didn't die for nothing. She died because she had a goal, unfortunately a goal that couldn't be obtained, because of her health progression. I can't say what, if any, treatment she did attempt. But I know that if I did have a cancer that would not allow me to have children I would do everything I could to combat that cancer without taking my child bearing abilities away.
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boomslang-1 — 16 years ago(December 10, 2009 06:38 PM)
So you are basically saying that if you were diagnosed with an cureable cancer, you would take to take a natural approach to rid the body of the disease instead going on chemo when it's proven that chemo and radiation kill cancer? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. Even if takes away your child bearing abilities, you still have a chance of beating the disease. God doesn't cure cancer, and it doesn't just go away on it's own. I have a friend who had ovarian cancer and had to have 1 of her ovaries removed. She had chemo which cured the cancer and guess what? She still gave birth to a healthy baby boy a few years later. I'm not saying treatment is always necessary. My mom was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer and I wished she had refused chemo. Sure she probably would have passed at least 6 months earlier if she refused treatment, but her quality of life would have been much better. But to say you'd rather risk no treatment and dying just because it affects your ability to have children, I can honestly say that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life.
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mzde — 20 years ago(August 07, 2005 10:02 PM)
It's not always genetic.Any single person can get it.
Every has cancer cells in their body at some point or another.That's why it is very important to keep up with immune system healthso our immune system can kill the cancer before the cancer kills us.sometimes, the cells grow out of control and beep like this happens.its a true bummer.