Dan Fogelberg died from prostate cancer

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NoH8
NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
Dan Fogelberg died from prostate cancer
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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited December 2007

    I've always loved his music. He was only 56. Sad.

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  • barbara913
    barbara913 Member Posts: 133
    edited December 2007

    very sad Frown... a great talent.

    barbara

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  • Fitztwins
    Fitztwins Member Posts: 7,969
    edited December 2007

    Yes, battled if for 3 years?  Sad to see it myself. I always feel a kinship when someone I know passes from cancer.

    Janis

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  • Beesie
    Beesie Member Posts: 12,240
    edited December 2007

    I hadn't heard that.  I liked him too, way back when.  How sad. 

    Prostate cancer is really a horrible thing.  Unfortunately it's the male disease in my family.

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited December 2007

    I didn't know that either. Sad.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited December 2007

    Beesie does the brca1 or 2 gene run in your family? I wondered because aren't breast and prostate cancers related?

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  • hi5
    hi5 Member Posts: 374
    edited December 2007

    I have heard that breast and prostate cancers are related...hormone driven.  I am the third of 4 sis to get bc... the first passed away but the remaining 2 have the BRCA1 gene and all our daughters do as well. 

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  • Beesie
    Beesie Member Posts: 12,240
    edited December 2007

    Yes, breast cancer and prostate cancer are related.  If the BRCA genetic mutation is found in a family, the women (and men) are at high risk for BC and ovarian cancer, and the men are at high risk for prostate cancer.  There are other cancers (pancreatic, melanoma, and others) that also seem to be more prevalent in families with the mutation.

    I was tested for the BRCA mutation and don't have it.  Prior to testing, the genetic counsellor agreed that I faced a risk from both sides of the family.  On one side there is a history of breast cancer; on the other side, while there is no BC or ovarian cancer (but also very few women who survived past age 30 over the past 100 years), there is a history of prostate cancer.  Although I've tested negative for now, I suspect that there is a genetic component to my cancer, just one that hasn't been discovered yet.

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  • Catherine
    Catherine Member Posts: 305
    edited December 2007

    My husband called me to tell me about Dan Fogelberg.  I felt real bad about this as I saw him perform at the University of Illinois, at a coffee house, when I was still in college.  He was wonderful then and that was before he was well known.  Fifty six is way too young!

    Catherine

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  • Bliz
    Bliz Member Posts: 507
    edited December 2007

    How sad.  I thought prostrate cancer was one of the more curable.  Dan Fogelberg's music was a huge part of my young adulthood.

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  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 2,019
    edited December 2007

    So sad.

    I really loved his music.

    Especially Another Auld Lang Syne that is played alot around this time of the year. 

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  • christineK
    christineK Member Posts: 1,265
    edited December 2007

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    I am trying to upload a pic of one of my all time favorite singer/songwriters. Notice I use one of his lyrics as my sig line. If the pic doesn't work, visit danfogelberg.com You will see many of his gorgeous face, be able to listen to music and read his beautiful lyrics.

    He is better off now, he wrote a testimonial on his web page urging men to be tested early and often. Telling men that they would not want to live as he has the past few years.

    He will be missed and live on in his music and memories.

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  • christineK
    christineK Member Posts: 1,265
    edited December 2007

    Oh the pic didn't work. I do not know how to do it on the new and improved bc.org. Sorry, it is the one in Maine on the boat, if you visit his site.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited December 2007

    I went out and bought his greatest hits CD yesterday. I had a cassette of it but don't have a cassette player any more. His song Leader of the Band is stuck in my head-- in a good way.

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