Robin Roberts and late Linda McCartney
Robin Roberts, host of ‘Good Morning America’ announced this morning that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She’ll have surgery on Friday to have a lump removed. She found the lump on the same day she was reporting on the death of a colleague, movie critic Joel Siegel, who died of colon cancer.
Roberts says her doctor believes they caught her breast cancer early. She said, “…my doctor expects me to be flying planes and hanging on to submarines in the middle of the Atlantic and scaling the Mayan pyramids in no time.” She also wrote about her diagnosis on ABC’s blog.
Linda McCartney was diagnosed in 1995 with breast cancer and her condition soon grew worse as the cancer spread to her liver. Talking about the medication used to treat Linda’s breast cancer, her husband Paul McCartney said: “If a drug has got to be used on humans then legally it has to be finally tested on an animal … This was difficult for Linda when she was undergoing her treatment.” He also claimed that Linda had been kept in the dark about how the drugs she took may have been tested on animals: “During the treatment, a nice answer is a nice answer and if they (the doctors) say, `It’s OK to have this because we didn’t test it on animals’, you are going to believe them.”
Linda McCartney died at age 56 on 17 April 1998 on the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, Arizona. (Ref. Wikipedia.com, tvsquad.com)
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