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Valerie Harper Will Open Up About Her Cancer on TV

Posted on 03/8/2013 by | News | Comments

Entertainment | Personal HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Actress Valerie Harper plans to discuss her brain cancer with some television doctors. The daytime talk show “The Doctors” said Harper will appear Monday to talk with Travis Stork, Lisa Masterson and Andrew Ordon, as well as her own team of doctors. The 1970s sitcom star has been diagnosed with a rare brain cancer and told she has as little as three months to live. She said her husband briefly withheld the diagnosis from her because …

Valerie Harper’s Rare Brain Cancer: What Caused It?

Posted on 03/6/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | Personal HealthActress Valerie Harper, who’s been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, has a rare type that often spreads from another form of cancer, such as breast, melanoma or, in Harper’s case, lung cancer — which she battled in 2009. Called leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, it affects about 5 percent of cancer patients and the first signs are “similar to stroke symptoms,” including trouble speaking, numbness of the face, double vision, or difficulty swallowing, says Keith L. Black, M.D., professor and chair of the …

TV Star Valerie Harper Has Brain Cancer

Posted on 03/6/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Entertainment | Personal HealthBy Frazier Moore, Television Writer, for The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on television’s “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff, “Rhoda,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. People magazine reported on its website Wednesday that the 73-year-old actress received the news on Jan. 15. Tests revealed she has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare condition that occurs when cancer cells spread into the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain. The report says Harper’s doctors …