LungBlog

Jansen, 64, was diagnosed with lung cancer a year and a half ago, which spread into his adrenal glands. After several operations, chemo treatments and bouts with pneumonia, he’s battling back and recently gained nearly 15 pounds. “I’m on chemo for life….until a miracle comes through the door.”

Close to 1,000 rainbow ribbons were handed out Friday to those who came to a funeral service for Meaghan Latone, a Fairport native and non-smoker’s lung cancer activist.

The concept of the ribbons, said her father, Bill Barry of Fairport, symbolized her fight for awareness of the disease she battled for two years, one that receives too little financial support and deserves more research. For instance, other cancers, including breast, prostate and colon cancers, receive a lot of publicity. Breast cancer has a pink ribbon, he said. But, Mrs. Latone would say, there are 72 kinds of cancer.

“Wouldn’t it be nice if there was one ribbon and every one was fought equally?” Barry said. “It gives everyone the chance to be advocates and say, here’s what cancer is about.”

Granny Ride was launched in 2001 by the family of Judy “Granny” Rubeck, a Putnam County woman who succumbed to lung cancer that year.

“While dealing with the fact that our loved one was terminally ill, we discovered firsthand the hardship of an adult getting financial assistance from anywhere or anyone,” said Rubeck’s daughter, Frances Cancilla, who has been the lead organizer of the event for the past four years, taking the mantle from her father, Jerry Rubeck.

Please support the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation

Sunday, September 28
12 - 5 PM
Sharon Meadow • Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
1 Stage • 5 Hours • 30 Comedians • A Million Laughs

Comedy Day is a free outdoor comedy concert featuring nearly 30 of today’s top performers. It was founded in 1981 as a way for Bay Area comics to say thank you to comedy fans for their support and to The City that has nurtured so many comedians. Since then, more than 500 of the world’s funniest performers have given the gift of laughter to over a half-million people at Comedy Day.

This year’s show is dedicated to Comedy Day founder Jose Simon.

Hearing Kay’s breathing on the bike is about the only clue you’ll get that this woman, who is training for an event where you bike, run and swim, is battling back from lung cancer. Just under her shirt, she has a long scar to prove it..

Leroy Sievers, who inspired thousands upon thousands with his “My Cancer” blog, has died at age 53.

He had been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2001. Four years later, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and a brain tumor. His story inspired NPR commentaries and the blog. Even as the cancer spread, Sievers inspired with his words.

White could do stand-up in any situation, no matter how harrowing. When her doctor called last November to tell her that she had inoperable lung cancer, White responded with a joke.

“He said, ‘It’s a really grave situation,’ ” White recalled. “I said, ‘That can’t be. I haven’t been to Paris yet.’ Then I told him I would appreciate it if he wouldn’t use the word grave in my diagnosis. So I guess I was making jokes.”

Stage and screen actor Terence Rigby has died at 71, his spokesman said.

Rigby died at his London home and had been suffering from lung cancer.

The star’s film credits included Mona Lisa Smile in 2003, Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), The Dogs of War (1980), Get Carter (1971), and Scandal in 1989.

The man behind such hits as “The Blues Brothers,” “Ghostbusters” and “Happy Gilmore” passes at 77.Bernie Brillstein, longtime Hollywood producer, died Thursday of lung cancer, his company reported. Dealing with complications from a double-bypass heart surgery in February, his chronic obstructive pulmonary disease finally caught up with him, Brillstein Entertainment Papers said in a statement.