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  1. 21 hours ago, Sod's Law said:

    Wouldn't chemo be almost a given if it has spread? Unlikely he would be walking around with any hair still on his head (or walking around much at all in public) if it had metastasised to any huge degree. 

     

    As someone currently undergoing chemotherapy, about 80% (if not more) of the patients I see at chemo (including myself) still have their hair.  Not all chemo drugs cause hair loss, and even if they do, for some cancers (not leukaemia or lymphoma, I believe) you can opt to wear an ice cap during treatment if maintaining your locks is important to you.  The chemo = bald image is outdated.

     

    Also, you can be normally mobile/feel fine even with widely metastatic cancer.

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  2. On 15/11/2022 at 09:06, gcreptile said:

    Her doctor says that she does not have AIDS or cancer, but muscle cramps and digestive problems which also cause her weight loss:

     

    Both potential symptoms of an eating disorder.

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  3. I don't think Madonna can handle not being that culturally relevant anymore.  Her last smash hit (which was a duet with Justin Timberlake, no less) was nearly 15 years ago.  There would be 20 year-olds alive now who aren't familiar with her music, or only know of her as someone who was big in the 80s.  It must be tough for someone with her ego.

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  4. 55 minutes ago, Sean said:

    Head and neck cancers typically have a long operation also.

     

    My mother said she heard on the radio Tuesday morning that it was 'throat' (which could mean larynx, pharynx, tonsil or oesophagus) cancer, but I can't find any reference to that online, so wonder if she misheard or they announced inaccurate/unverified information.  I could be wrong, but I wouldn't imagine a 'throat' operation would take 12 hours, unless it was something very major.


  5. Probably belongs in the NZ thread, but she was based in Australia since the late 80s.  Margaret Urlich has died after a 2.5 year illness with cancer, aged 57.  She sang the female vocal part on Daryl Braithwaite's 'The Horses' (though did not appear in the music video, with her lines instead lip synced by a model), and had solo hits with 'Escaping', 'Number One (Remember When We Danced All Night)', 'Boy In the Moon' and 'Gonna Make You Mine' in the early-mid 90s.

     

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/300668179/kiwi-singer-margaret-urlich-57-dies-after-battle-with-cancer


  6. On 07/04/2022 at 02:16, msc said:

     

    Aye, saw a bit of it and he looked horrendous. Got a relative with post-stroke aphasia and its an utterly horrific form of dementia tbh.

     

    Aphasia is not a form of dementia, although dementia patients also have difficulty with verbal communication (leading to none in the final stages).  Dementia affects the semantic (meaning/vocabulary) aspects of language, with the syntactic (sentence structure and word grammar) elements of language being relatively spared.  In contrast, aphasia usually affects both the semantic and syntactic elements of language.

     

    Aphasia can range from a near-total inability to use or understand spoken and written language (global aphasia), which is devastating, to being able to speak fluently but having occasional difficulty with finding the right word (anomic aphasia) at the more mild end.  You can also have fluent aphasia where the person can speak in full sentences without struggle, and their speech sounds normal (if you ignore what they are saying), but what they say does not make sense, and their comprehension and ability to monitor their own speech is poor.

     

    In general, aphasia will be worst in the early post-stroke period and then either gradually or dramatically improve.  In contrast, dementia only gets worse.

     

    From viewing that interview, Chris Ellison has a non-fluent aphasia, and appears to struggle significantly with stringing words together and getting his words out (he probably also has a related condition, apraxia of speech).

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  7. 3 minutes ago, Salmon Mousse said:

     

    Well... yeah... that was kinda the point

     

    No.  The point you were making is that we have to question the value of COVID vaccines because not all of the scientists agree.

     

    If you are only swayed by all scientists agreeing on something, that would leave very little for you to actually believe in.


  8. 15 minutes ago, Salmon Mousse said:

    Not all scientists are in agreement, by the way....

     

    I'd love for you to provide an example of a phenomenon for which one dissenting scientist (as in, you know, one with actual research qualifications who is employed in scientific research) does not exist.

     

    That's not how science works.


  9. 7 hours ago, drol said:

    Died of COVID and was a keen anti-vaxxer apparently...

     

    I'd Do Anything For Life (But I Won't Get a COVID Vaccine)

    Anti-Vaxx Dreams Come Through

    I Took the Mask Right Off of My Face

    I'd Die For Q (Anon's the Truth)

    Bat Virus Out of Hell

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  10. 51 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

    Some click-bait-like looking metal site knew it:

    https://metalsludge.tv/bat-out-of-hell-sources-say-meat-loaf-is-in-very-bad-health-with-covid-and-on-his-deathbed/

     

    Could it actually have been COVID? They didn't officially release a cause of death yet, but maybe he was unvaccinated, so they don't want to reveal that. On the other hand, he might have had quite a few co-morbidities.

     

    That was my first thought, though not based on anything concrete.  I would not be surprsied if he was a right wing anti-vaxxer/COVID conspiracy theorist.

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  11. As reported in the Dead Drummers thread (I didn't hear about it otherwise), Lindsay Tebbutt, the drummer in Choirboys (they of 1987's 'Run To Paradise') died in December 2021 from mesothelioma:

     

     


  12. 3 hours ago, Joey Russ said:

    As tragic as her death is, I think we can at least cheer on the fact that Ronnie was able to outlive that abusive prick Phil who pretty much destroyed her career. 

     

    While she may have outlived him chronologically, she died almost 3 years younger than him.

     

    Ain't life fair...


  13. I am (or was until a few months ago) a prolific editor on Wikipedia.  The last reference cited on the Jason Herbert page links to a site you have to be logged in to view.  It would be better (or so I think) if someone who can access the GRO site can take a screen-shot of the relevant page/image and upload it to a file-hosting site such as imgur.com, and then link to that, if possible.


  14. On 27/03/2021 at 01:57, Book said:

     

    The Spice Girls became the first music act to have their first six singles reach number one on the UK singles chart between 1996 and 1997.

    Westlife became the first music act to have their first seven singles to reach number one from 1999 to 2000.

    I guess this is hard to beat.

     

    @msc Before the Spice Girls, Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers topped the UK singles chart with their first 3 singles, in 1989, equalling the then-record held by Gerry and the Pacemakers and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.


  15. 11 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:

    She has been stage 4 since 2017 so has pretty much exceeded the median bench mark.

     

    She has actually been (known) stage 4 since 2013, when the cancer was detected in her shoulder, following a car accident.  But this wasn't announced at the time.

     

    In her favour, she probably has has that the cancer is presumably a slower-growing one, given it took this long to become clinically apparent again, and that she has now lived with a stage 4 diagnosis for 7 years.  While having cancer in your bones can be debilitating, it is my understanding that stage 4 cancer usually needs to be in a vital organ before death is imminent.  Assuming her cancer hasn't become significantly worse recently, she could well die of something else first, given she's now in her 70s.


  16. On 16/12/2020 at 20:47, waynet said:

    In Australia we had the Moir Sisters.  Basically one hit wonders with Good Morning How Are You , and yes it was as lame as the title suggests.

    One of them passed back in 2015

     

    Yes, I remember that (the passing in 2015)... but had never heard of them before (born '78).  The Nolans seem to have had a continued media presence/fascination in the UK, despite achieving relatively little.

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