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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 The chemo = bald image is outdated.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.

Australian singer John Farnham undergoes surgery for an as yet undisclosed type of cancer today, aged 73. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-23/john-farnham-admitted-to-hospital-for-cancer-treatment/14029044

She revealed she had breast cancer in 2014, and also has bipolar. https://i.imgur.com/kOtAJiT.jpg

Both potential symptoms of an eating disorder.

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.

Reports now that John's had part of his jaw removed. Yikes.

ABC are reporting it's 'mouth' cancer, without specifying where exactly. That can be lip, tongue, floor of mouth, cheek, palate, salivary gland, tonsil, or perhaps even jaw. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-24/john-farnham-cancer-surgery-tumour-removed-from-mouth/101365740 Given the 12 hour op, I am guessing that there was a reconstruction (muscle or bone graft from elsewhere) as part of the procedure.

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.

New Zealand-born, Australian-based, singer Margaret Urlich has died aged 57 from cancer: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/300668179/kiwi-singer-margaret-urlich-57-dies-after-battle-with-cancer

80s/90s singer Margaret Urlich has died aged 57 from cancer: https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/300668179/kiwi-singer-margaret-urlich-57-dies-after-battle-with-cancer

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

If it's a polyp (which tend to occur on just one vocal fold), they are completely benign... though detrimental to the voice, which is not great for a singer.

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).

He looks like the kind of person he was singing about in 'Another Day In Paradise' there.

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.

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.

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

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.

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:

While she may have outlived him chronologically, she died almost 3 years younger than him. Ain't life fair...

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.

Yeah, but it may not necessarily be a death sentence - at least going by the 57% 5-year survival rate (though that's not necessarily a cure) for diffuse B-cell lymphoma at a 'distant' (presumably meaning stage 4) stage here https://www.cancer.org/cancer/non-hodgkin-lymphoma/detection-diagnosis-staging/factors-prognosis.html

@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.

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.

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.