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Published: 09/28/10

Cancer and the Color Wars: Pink? Teal? Purple?

By  Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
Cancer and the Color Wars: Pink? Teal? Purple?

The late summer teal dusk of September is leaving us. You did know that September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and that teal is the ribbon color, didn't you? And of course you saw the woman with Teal Toes. Oh I guess not, since she's in Chicago, and you're in Cincinnati. But you must have seen the teal fountains around town. They're everywhere! Why, entire cities have colored their oceanfronts teal in honor of ovarian cancer survivors. Coastal cities aside, teal has a long way to go to catch up with pink. It's almost October, aka "pink nausea" in some circles. October is Breast ...

Published: 08/19/10

She Had a Job, a Boyfriend and a Brain Tumor, Back When Reality TV Was Real

By  Donna Trussell - Politics Daily
She Had a Job, a Boyfriend and a Brain Tumor, Back When Reality TV Was Real

For a moment in time, she was pediatric resident Dr. Marnie Rose at Memorial Hermann in Houston. I got to know her a little during my first, tumultuous year of recovery from ovarian cancer. Dr. Rose was on TV. Back in those days I was combing the schedule for any reality show that slithered its way to the tube. There among the dreck of the early 2000s (guilty pleasures "Mr. Personality," et al., I'm looking at you) was the lovely Ms. Rose in "Houston Medical," an ABC show that featured doctors, patients and their families. The program, shot over the course of a year, ran for six episodes in ...

Published: 07/19/10

Cops: Teacher Lied About Brain Cancer to Skip Work

By  Ben Muessig - AOL News
Cops: Teacher Lied About Brain Cancer to Skip Work

(July 19) -- Teachers receive plenty of questionable sick notes from students. Authorities in Pennsylvania say one special-education teacher has been dishing them out. Police believe Middletown educator Leslie Herneisey, 51, lied about tumors and cancer for more than a decade so she could skip work. Herneisey began accruing sick leave by allegedly claiming she had a brain tumor, then asked for eight weeks off while she supposedly underwent chemotherapy for an inoperable form of brain cancer. ...

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