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show first aired November 30, 2006
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This week on The Health Show: Actor Kathryn Joosten talks with us about surviving lung cancer. We also hear from people living with cancer. And, just a few decades ago, smoking was everywhere. Now, not so much.listen to the entire show in RealAudio 25:00
Mrs. Landingham, lung cancer survivor
Kathryn Joosten is not a household name, but she has a household face, and voice for that matter. Whenever she appears on your TV you instantly recognize her from the dozens of guest roles on series such as Scrubs, Will & Grace and My Name Is Earl. She even played god in 8 episodes of Joan of Arcadia. But her most famous role is still that of presidential secretary Dolores Landingham on The West Wing. She has another role -- a real life one -- as a lung cancer survivor and spokesperson for the National Lung Cancer Partnership. Bob spoke with her recently and asked her if the reason there are so few advocates for lung cancer research is because there are so few survivors?
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» The National Lung Cancer Partnership
Mommy, what is smoking?
Watch any TV show from the 1950s or '60s and you'll notice something striking: almost everyone has a cigarette smoldering beside them. But a quick glance through today's cable lineup reveals that smoking isn't as common -- or glamorous -- as it used to be. Reyna Eisenstark has some thoughts about how much has changed since she was a kid.
Voices of cancer
On this program it’s very easy to talk about cancer as a thing, a consequence, something that needs to be researched and battled and studied some more. What is sometimes difficult to remember is that cancer is a living invader inside a real person, someone with dreams, a family, a life. I recently sat down with three of those people. Maureen Kearns is a retired elementary school teacher. Mark Burke is an electrician and musician. And George Lewis is a dairy farmer and manager of a roofing business. All three are being treated for cancer and live in Southern Vermont. And all three have a lot to say about living with cancer.
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» We had help in producing this piece from the Institute of Medical Humanism in Bennington, Vermont. There's information about its first film, “Voices From The World Of Illness - Advanced Cancer” at one of the institute's division, the Center for Communication in Medicine.
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