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07-13-2001, 09:53 AM
Maureen Reagan’s cancer spreads (http://frontpagemag.com/horowitzsnotepad/2001/hn07-13-01.htm)
Melanoma now in brain
LOS ANGELES, July 13 — Maureen Reagan, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and actress Jane Wyman, is hospitalized and undergoing whole brain radiation for melanoma that has now spread to her brain, her husband said.
REAGAN, 60, is battling for her life at Mercy San Juan Hospital in Carmichael, near the family’s Northern California home, her husband of 20 years, Dennis C. Revell, said early Friday.
"She believes that there are many factors that help a person survive, from the power of one’s faith and prayers to support of family and friends to the quality of one’s medical care to maintaining a positive attitude," Revell said.
Last November, a golf ball-sized malignant tumor was discovered in her right pubic bone and she underwent 3½ months of aggressive biochemotherapy treatments at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica.
She appeared to be winning her cancer fight when she was released from the Santa Monica hospital on March 23. She returned to her Sacramento-area home and was put on a 12-month, self-administered biotherapy program, Revell said.
Reagan was stricken with mild seizures on the Fourth of July and a MRI performed July 6 confirmed two brain tumors, her husband said in a detailed statement.
She was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, on Dec. 12, 1996. Revell said the five-year survival rate for melanoma that has widely spread is less than 20 percent.
"Like many cancer patients, Maureen prefers not to dwell on the statistical survival rates, preferring to recognize that each person’s case is quite different and unique," said Revell, who has been at his wife’s side throughout her hospitalizations.
Jane Wyman and former first lady Nancy Reagan have visited her.
"I saw her a little over a week ago and told her that her dad and I love her and we’re praying for her every day," Nancy Reagan said.
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Melanoma now in brain
LOS ANGELES, July 13 — Maureen Reagan, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan and actress Jane Wyman, is hospitalized and undergoing whole brain radiation for melanoma that has now spread to her brain, her husband said.
REAGAN, 60, is battling for her life at Mercy San Juan Hospital in Carmichael, near the family’s Northern California home, her husband of 20 years, Dennis C. Revell, said early Friday.
"She believes that there are many factors that help a person survive, from the power of one’s faith and prayers to support of family and friends to the quality of one’s medical care to maintaining a positive attitude," Revell said.
Last November, a golf ball-sized malignant tumor was discovered in her right pubic bone and she underwent 3½ months of aggressive biochemotherapy treatments at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica.
She appeared to be winning her cancer fight when she was released from the Santa Monica hospital on March 23. She returned to her Sacramento-area home and was put on a 12-month, self-administered biotherapy program, Revell said.
Reagan was stricken with mild seizures on the Fourth of July and a MRI performed July 6 confirmed two brain tumors, her husband said in a detailed statement.
She was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, on Dec. 12, 1996. Revell said the five-year survival rate for melanoma that has widely spread is less than 20 percent.
"Like many cancer patients, Maureen prefers not to dwell on the statistical survival rates, preferring to recognize that each person’s case is quite different and unique," said Revell, who has been at his wife’s side throughout her hospitalizations.
Jane Wyman and former first lady Nancy Reagan have visited her.
"I saw her a little over a week ago and told her that her dad and I love her and we’re praying for her every day," Nancy Reagan said.
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