Bobby please tell me if this belongs in the Celebrities section as it pertains to Reeve's widow.

Now onto the news. Just a day after Jenning's death from lung cancer Christopher Reeve's widow Dana announces she is also battling the same disease. No word on how far along the cancer is but she well undergo chemotherapy. Dana, who hasn't smoked at all in her life is proof that you can still get sick without lighting up. Even more disturbing, non-smoking women are 3 times more likely to be diagnosed with lung cancer than their male counterparts. Physicians don't not understand why.

It is. I'll move it.


It's sad that she's been diagnosed with one of the top smoking caused illnesses.

Yeah but non-smokers can get it also.

Not everyone who smokes will get it. My mom's sister is proof of that and she smokes more than Brian does in a week.

Most of the kids I went to school with smoked. Including that friend who looks like Kelsi of SheDaisy.

I still do when I am stressed and it will come back to bite me in the ass in the future.

Dana Reeve, 44, the widow of Superman actor Christopher Reeve, announced on Aug. 9 that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer, is undergoing treatment and is optimistic about her progress, the Reuters news service reported.

I am saddened to announce that Dana Reeves lost her battle with lung cancer. She was 44.

I heard about it while I was cleaning the break room at work.

Bobby asked me to post this here, which is the story from ET Online:

Dana Reeve Memorial News

March 9, 2006

DANA REEVE lost her battle with lung cancer on Monday night at the age of 44. Now, we have more star reactions to her shocking death as well as news about her funeral arrangements.

Currently, the CHRISTOPHER REEVE Foundation is not releasing any funeral information, but it has been announced that there will be a public memorial for Dana, which is tentatively scheduled for April.

Meanwhile, Hollywood is still shocked by the sad news. "That family has been through so much," TIM ALLEN says. "My heart goes out to that family and that kid."

"The only thing I keep thinking is, well at least they are together now," TIA CARRERE says.

"You are completely heartbroken for what Will is going through," GEORGE LOPEZ says. "I don't really think there is anything anybody can say, other than find security in your family and love there."

After Christopher and Dana's untimely deaths, many now wonder what will happen with their 13-year-old son WILL. KATHY LEWIS, president of the Christopher Reeve Foundation, assures that he is surrounded by loved ones. "Will is in the loving arms of family and friends," she tells ET.

It's also being reported that before she died, Dana made arrangements for Will to live not with one of her family members, but instead with the family of one of Will's closest friends so that he could maintain existing friendships.

Dana, a non-smoker, announced her lung cancer diagnosis last August and at that time told ET she was shocked by the news: "What I didn't know is that lung cancer is the number one cancer. I was always looking for breast, the brain and ovarian and uterine, and you think I'm a non-smoker and I live in the country, so I'm good. So I am completely shocked."

In November of last year, Dana appeared publicly for the first time since the announcement and continued to stay active, including singing at a tribute to hockey great MARK MESSIER just two months ago. She even sat down with ET on January 12, where she reported that her therapy was going well and her tumor was shrinking.

But Dana succumbed to the disease on March 6 when she died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center in New York.

Inspired by her husband, who died of heart failure in 2004, the inspirational Reeve had taken up stem-cell research and became chairman of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.

Reeve was known for the strong support of her 'Superman' husband, whom she took care of for years after a horseback riding incident left him paralyzed in 1995.

Dana Reeve, the widow of Superman star Christopher Reeve, who nursed the paralyzed actor until his death in 2004, died of lung cancer at the age of 44, the Christopher Reeve Foundation announced on March 7.
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