Bob Collins
If Paige Lazorenko, 17, of West Fargo, can’t go to her prom, the prom will come to her.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Cancer
She was given only until December to live. But she wanted to play a game for her college basketball team. She did, and then she spent her remaining days raising money for cancer research. Read more →
Attention, Alaska Airlines: Cancer isn’t contagious.
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For the last 10 months, CBS has been following the experimental therapy, in which a modified polio gene — modified so it wouldn’t reproduce — “wakes up” the body’s immune system to attack cancer. Read more →
A little news from the world of football is just what the doctor ordered.
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Sometime in June or July, if things work out as she hopes, Maxine Renning of Los Angeles will ride her bike into Minneapolis. She admits she’s not much of a cyclist but by then she will be. She’ll be riding from Baltimore and will stop here on her way to Seattle as part of a 4,000-mile ride to support people fighting cancer. That seems to be her specialty.
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Jenna Langer Vancura, whom I wrote about in September, died on Saturday. She was just 28. The Woodbury and New Ulm native chronicled her life with cancer on her blog, The Redhead Report, and visited MPR’s Daily Circuit a few times too. She had three bouts with cancer, then announced in September — 11 years Read more →
Steve McKee has died, about a year after he was told he had months to live. Read more →
NPR’s national audience got a chance today to meet Nora Purmort, who has become well known in the Twin Cities now because of her chronicling of her and her husband’s life since his cancer diagnosis.
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Lauren Hill, the basketball player who won hearts in the face of a pending death because of cancer, has entered hospice care, ESPN reports. Read more →
It is often hard for mere mortals to fathom the grace that can surround dying. Read more →
Garth Brooks, who’s in the middle of a bigger winning streak than anyone else who’s ever played at Target Center, got a chance to meet the woman for whom he stopped his Minneapolis concert last week.
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Here’s your daily dose of sweetness.
It happened at last night’s Garth Brooks concert at Target Center when a woman waved a sign that indicated she’d had chemotherapy yesterday morning. Read more →
In a perfect world, love alone would cure cancer. Read more →
It doesn’t really matter that the opposing team wasn’t that interested in tight defense; the game wasn’t really the point at that point anyway.
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