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Clearly, the "Personality" is what's newsworthy and not the disease, and even if these Survivors are offering details of their disease it's likely that those details are too mundane for primetime television.
And Lorraine is spot on - without these details the general public does view BC as one disease, not a complex of different variables, and over simplifies how we are going to find a CURE.
I have written to the Ellen De Generes show-who purports such an exhibition of BC support- on 3 occassions appealing to her to tell the story of Stage IV patients, that we live active, happy lives, with our disease, inspite of our disease and most importantly if 10 years ago, or if ever, I had seen MY story on her show or any tv program I might have been spared a sleepless night or two and been bolstered with HOPE of truly surviving with this disease until a cure is found. Scoot over Maura Tierney!
I'll gladly be NED forever. A "cure" is just semantics~

Keeping the Faith~

Jessica