<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeff-bridges-reveals-one-of-the-few-films-he-will-watch-when-its-on-tv-yes-its-one-of-his" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeff Bridges</a> gave fans an update on his battle with lymphoma after first revealing his diagnosis in October 2020.
The 73-year-old actor spoke to the <a href="https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2023/jeff-bridges-cancer-covid-the-old-man-interview.html">AARP magazine</a> in an interview published Tuesday and said his cancer, which was once a &#8220;9-by-12 inch tumor,&#8221; has shrunken &#8220;to the size of a marble.&#8221; However, he said that he&#8217;s still dealing with long-term recovery issues from his tough bout with the coronavirus.
&#8220;It was slow at first, as they worked to find the right chemo cocktail for me,&#8221; Bridges said. &#8220;I got this letter from the chemo place informing me I had contracted COVID [in January 2021]. I had no immune system to fight it. Chemo had wiped that out, which made it really, really tough.&#8221;
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&#8220;For me,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Cancer was nothing compared to the COVID. I remember the doctor saying to me, &#8216;Jeff, you&#8217;ve got to fight. You&#8217;re not fighting.&#8217; But I didn&#8217;t get it anymore. I just didn&#8217;t know how to do that. I was in surrender mode.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;d say to myself, &#8216;Everybody dies, and this is me dying,'&#8221; Bridges continued. &#8220;And I&#8217;d hear myself go, &#8216;Oh, well, here we are, on to the next adventure.'&#8221;
Bridges got his non-Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma into remission in <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/jeff-bridges-tumor-size-of-marble-1235498982/">September 2021</a> and then was treated with &#8220;convalescent plasma&#8221; which contained COVID viral antibodies.
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&#8220;A lot of getting better was a matter of setting really small goals,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;At first they’d say, &#8216;How long can you stand?&#8217; For a while, my record was 45 seconds before I&#8217;d collapse. And then they were saying: &#8216;Oh, look, you&#8217;re standing for a minute! That&#8217;s so cool, now can you walk 5 feet?'&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever work again, really,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So at first I said, &#8216;Well, we&#8217;ll see.&#8217; But eventually that became, &#8216;Maybe I can.&#8217; I have to admit that I was still frightened of going back to work. Then I began to think of my recovery as a gift being presented.&#8221;
&#8220;So cut to two years after taking that break,&#8221; Bridges continued. &#8220;I come back to work, and, man, it was like a dream, as if we&#8217;d just had a long weekend or something. I was seeing all the same faces in the cast and crew. Very bizarre. Everybody showed such dedication and hung in. We finished it. I appreciate that.&#8221;

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Tim Keller, a prominent <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/christianity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christian</a> author and the longtime pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a>, passed away on Friday morning at the age of 72 after a battle with <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancer</a>.
Keller, who <a href="https://timothykeller.com/author" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retired</a> from full-time ministry in 2017 and was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2020, served for decades as senior minister of Redeemer Church, which he founded in 1989. He was the husband to his wife, Kathy, a father to three children, and a grandfather.
Redeemer Church <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewNWoodard/status/1659591773092552710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Friday morning that Keller passed away in his home &#8220;trusting in the sure and certain hope of the resurrection.&#8221; The statement noted his humility in interactions with both congregants and global ministry leaders, as well as his delight in “communicating the profound wonder and transforming power of the gospel of grace.”
&#8220;We are forever grateful for his leadership, heart, and dedication to sharing the love of Christ with others,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;While we will miss his presence here, we know he is rejoicing with his Savior in heaven.&#8221;
Michael Keller, his son, had <a href="https://twitter.com/timkellernyc/status/1659314125577568262" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> hours earlier that his father was discharged from the hospital on Thursday to receive hospice care. “Over the past few days, he has asked us to pray with him often,” he wrote. “He expressed many times through prayer his desire to go home to be with Jesus.”
Keller authored books such as “The Meaning of Marriage,” which articulates the biblical design for the covenantal union between one man and one woman, and “The Reason for God,” which addresses doubts about the Christian faith held by many modern Americans. He also frequently wrote about urban church planting and other theological topics.
The veteran minister received degrees from Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. He previously served as a pastor at West Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Hopewell, Virginia, a professor of practical theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, and director of mercy ministries for the Presbyterian Church in America.
Keller revealed earlier this year that he had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TimKellerNYC/posts/pfbid02aba3uWqcDvddXPe12dgdY7h58RZcxL3LSKw52avGgEaegYgTbyqAW1Y9D9wYY3kjl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">developed</a> new cancer tumors and had started to receive treatments targeting a genetic marker of the disease. “Please pray for our trust and dependence on God, for his providential oversight of the medical preparations now in process, and for our desire to glorify God in whatever comes our way,” he said.
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Fellow ministers and evangelical figures reflected on the life and ministry of Keller, citing his robust intellectual capacity and his simple love for Jesus Christ.
“His sermons were never so cerebral that arguments were allowed to displace confession, prayer, and a deep sense of the presence of God,” Don Carson, emeritus professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, <a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/carson-tribute-tim-keller/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> about Keller. “Most people who spent time with Tim thought they were among his best friends. Like the apostle John, who thought of himself as the one whom Jesus loved, not a few of Tim’s parishioners thought of themselves as particularly loved by their senior pastor. That is a common mark of a well-cared-for church.”
“He was my hero because when I read or listened to him, I loved Jesus more. When Tim and I catch up someday in the new heavens and the new earth, I can’t wait to hear all he’s learned. But for now, Tim’s death leaves a void I can never fill,” Collin Hansen, editor-in-chief of The Gospel Coalition, an online publication and content ministry which Keller co-founded, said in another <a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/met-hero-tim-keller/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tribute</a>. “For many in my generation, even if they only grew up listening to his sermons or reading his books, Tim Keller became a spiritual father.”

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&#8220;The Expendables&#8221; star Dolph Lundgren didn&#8217;t beat around the bush when he said he&#8217;s &#8220;lucky to be alive&#8221; after revealing how he almost died during his secret 8-year battle with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cancer</a>.
During the 65-year-old Swedish actor&#8217;s appearance on &#8220;In Depth with Graham Bensinger,&#8221; he opened up about the &#8220;serious&#8221; health diagnosis he got in 2015 when doctors in Los Angeles &#8220;found a tumor” in his kidney and took it out, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/10/dolph-lundgren-reveals-serious-8-year-cancer-battle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported.
&#8220;But then they did a biopsy — and it was cancerous,&#8221; Lundgren told the host. &#8220;Then I did scans every six months, then you do it every year, then it was fine for five years.&#8221;
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In 2020, he was experiencing what he thought was acid reflux, but it turned out that the cancer was back and had spread. Lundgren was told he had six tumors in his kidneys and liver and that he only had &#8220;two to three years&#8221; left to live.
&#8220;At that point, it started to hit me that this is kind of something serious,&#8221; the &#8220;Rocky IV&#8221; actor said.
After a scan to prepare for surgery, Dolph said &#8220;the surgeon called me and said, &#8216;No, it&#8217;s grown now. It&#8217;s too big. We can&#8217;t take it out.&#8217; It&#8217;s like the size of like a small lemon.&#8221;
&#8220;The doctor over there [Sweden] wasn&#8217;t really sharing information with us, so we didn’t really know, didn&#8217;t know what was going on,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;I think now, thinking back, they probably thought, &#8216;Oh, I&#8217;m a lost case.’”
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&#8220;I thought it was it for sure,&#8221; he added, before getting emotional. &#8220;You kind of look at your life and go &#8216;I&#8217;ve had a frickin&#8217; great life.&#8217; I&#8217;ve lived like five lifetimes in one. So it wasn&#8217;t like I was bitter about it. It was just like, you know, feel sorry for my kids and my fiancée and people around you.&#8221;
However, not ready to give up all hope, he decided to seek a second opinion. The second opinion would come from Dr. Alexandra Drakaki, who noticed something unusual about the tumor and prescribed medication that had success with shrinking mutations in tumors, which is exactly what happened. Lundgren said the tumor had shrunk by 90% by the end of 2022.
&#8220;I used to say his cancer is melting away,&#8221; Drakaki laughed. &#8220;There are certain parts of his body that the cancer is responding really well. There&#8217;s some lesions that we cannot see them anymore. So that is above expectations.”
And now the Hollywood star said he &#8220;appreciates life a lot more&#8221; and feels &#8220;lucky to be alive,&#8221; Page Six <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/05/10/dolph-lundgren-almost-died-during-an-8-year-cancer-battle/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
Lundgren is engaged to fiancée Emma Krokdal, 25. He also shares two children from a previous marriage.

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A senior Biden administration official spent her time in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> briefing room speculating on what specific programs or funding Republicans might be willing to cut — and with no pushback from the reporters in attendance, she claimed they&#8217;d cut veterans&#8217; benefits and cancer research.
Shalanda Young, who is currently serving as Biden&#8217;s director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), took the lectern on Thursday and began to rant about Republicans just wanting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-led-house-passes-mccarthys-plan-to-raise-debt-limit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cut spending</a> without really thinking or caring about where the funding they were cutting was going to go.
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OMB Director Shalanda Young speculates Republicans might be willing to cut *cancer research* under the guise of cutting government spending and trimming debt.
Just insane. Pure rhetorical terrorism.
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&#8220;Something tells me, those toplines in that bill, there are many Republicans who could not vote for bills that actually told the American people by line item what it means,&#8221; Young began, arguing that Republicans wanted to pass a bill that would &#8220;cut spending&#8221; without being forced to admit which spending might be cut.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve talked a lot about veterans, and people get nervous about those veterans cuts, and they decide not to do that,&#8221; she continued, &#8220;What&#8217;s next, cancer research? You zero out the highway money in the transportation bill?&#8221;
Young went on to say that it was just business as usual, claiming, &#8220;We&#8217;ve done this before. Republicans have done this before. &#8230; Because those cuts hurt communities whether you&#8217;re represented by a Democrat or a Republican.&#8221;
She went on to say that people should withhold judgment until the appropriations process had time to work so that people could see where the money was going before they voted to cut any of it.
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As the debt ceiling fast approaches — Treasury Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellen-warns-of-debt-default-as-early-as-june-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Janet Yellen</a> has warned the United States could default as early as June — Democrats have been adamant about passing a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling and avoid default. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) submitted his own proposal, which includes spending cuts to a number of the Biden administration&#8217;s green energy initiatives — and in the days since, Democrats have worked overtime to claim that McCarthy&#8217;s proposal would result in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-freedom-caucus-chairman-responds-as-white-house-lobs-spurious-claims-at-spending-cut-proposal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nothing short of disaster</a>.

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TV host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tv-host-maria-menounos-announces-she-is-finally-expecting-a-baby-after-decade-long-struggle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maria Menounos</a> revealed that she&#8217;s been dealing with a secret health battle after being diagnosed with stage two pancreatic cancer and said &#8220;God granted&#8221; her a &#8220;miracle.&#8221;
The 44-year-old, who has hosted shows like &#8220;Extra&#8221; and &#8220;E! News,&#8221; said life was going great as she and her husband Keven Undergaro were finally going to be parents via a surrogate after a decade-long struggle with fertility. In 2017, Menounos was diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. Then in 2022, she suffered from leg cramps and was diagnosed with type one diabetes, <a href="https://people.com/health/maria-menounos-reveals-she-survived-pancreatic-cancer-with-a-baby-on-the-way/?hid=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc&amp;did=9032500-20230503&amp;utm_source=ppl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=people-news_newsletter&amp;utm_content=050323&amp;lctg=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc">People</a> magazine reported.
&#8220;I was feeling so good, and then I got slapped in the face with a new diagnosis,&#8221; Menounos said of the pain she experienced last June. &#8220;I&#8217;d scream out loud, I was inconsolable.&#8221;
Menounos said after being diagnosed and taking insulin, she &#8220;was crushing it&#8221; by October.
&#8220;I felt so good. What else could go wrong?&#8221; But a month later, she said &#8220;excruciating abdominal pain coupled with diarrhea&#8221; put her back in the hospital.
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Obviously, there&#39;s so much to say about this and what Ive gone through these last few months, and even year. First, dealing with the diabetes diagnosis last summer, second (my other miracle) preparing for my soon to be newborn baby and third, pancreas cancer. I still haven&#39;t… <a href="https://t.co/rhd1nOU844">pic.twitter.com/rhd1nOU844</a>
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&#8220;They said, &#8216;Everything&#8217;s fine,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;But I kept having pains. On a flight several weeks later, the pain was so bad it felt like someone was tearing my insides out.&#8221;
She underwent more thorough testing, which revealed she had a tumor on her pancreas.
&#8220;I&#8217;m like, &#8216;How in the freaking world can I have a brain tumor and pancreatic cancer?'&#8221; the TV host said. &#8220;All I could think was that I have a baby coming.&#8221;
In February, she underwent surgery to have the tumor removed and called the recovery &#8220;super painful,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t move or lift myself up.&#8221;
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&#8220;Keven slept in the hospital every night,&#8221; Menounos added. &#8220;And my dad was the best caretaker.&#8221;
She said she&#8217;d been given an optimistic diagnosis and did not need chemotherapy or additional treatment, just annual scans over the next few years.
&#8220;I&#8217;m so grateful and so lucky,&#8221; Menounos explained weeks away from expecting her first child. &#8220;God granted me a miracle. I&#8217;m going to appreciate having her in my life so much more than I would have before this journey.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tv-host-maria-menounos-announces-she-is-finally-expecting-a-baby-after-decade-long-struggle">TV Host Maria Menounos Announces She Is Finally Expecting A Baby After Decade-Long Struggle</a>

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A new study indicates that an artificial intelligence tool can tremendously improve predictions of whether a nodule will develop cancer, thereby helping identify cancer much earlier in deadly diseases such as lung cancer.
Experts at the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Imperial College London created the new AI tool, which could identify nodules’ risk of cancer at significantly higher rates than current tests.
“In the future, we hope it will improve early detection and potentially make cancer treatment more successful by highlighting high-risk patients and fast-tracking them to earlier intervention,” Dr. Benjamin Hunter, a clinical oncology registrar at the Royal Marsden and a clinical research fellow at Imperial, stated, The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/30/artificial-intelligence-tool-identify-cancer-ai">reported</a>.
“Through this work, we hope to push boundaries to speed up the detection of the disease using innovative technologies such as AI,” said the study’s chief investigator, Dr Richard Lee, adding, “People diagnosed with lung cancer at the earliest stage are much more likely to survive for five years, when compared with those whose cancer is caught late. This means it is a priority we find ways to speed up the detection of the disease, and this study – which is the first to develop a radiomics model specifically focused on large lung nodules – could one day support clinicians in identifying high-risk patients.”
To ascertain how effectively the new tool performed, its accuracy was measured using a standard called area under the curve (AUC). A score of 1 would indicate a perfect record of predicting cancers; a 0.5 score would indicate a random guess. The new tool scored an AUC of 0.87, as opposed to the currently-used Brock score, which had an AUC of 0.67.
In January, the University of Toronto reported that researchers using an AI-powered database designed in a mere 30 days a potential drug to treat HCC, the most common type of primary liver cancer.
The researchers created a “novel hit molecule” that could bind to a new target novel target for HCC without using an experimentally determined structure.
“While the world was fascinated with advances in generative AI in art and language, our generative AI algorithms managed to design potent inhibitors of a target with an AlphaFold-derived structure,” Insilico Medicine founder and CEO Alex Zhavoronkov, one of the lead researchers, <a href="applewebdata://C76D8FF4-57F9-490D-B0FB-E1E3D58B1255/v">stated</a>.
“AlphaFold broke new scientific ground in predicting the structure of all proteins in the human body,” Feng Ren, chief scientific officer of Insilico Medicine. “At Insilico Medicine, we saw that as an incredible opportunity to take these structures and apply them to our end-to-end AI platform in order to generate novel therapeutics to tackle diseases with high unmet need. This paper is an important first step in that direction.”

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The FDA approved a the use of a drug combination that represents the first approved therapy in roughly 20 years for patients newly-diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the non-Hodgkins lymphoma most prevalent in the U.S.
The drug Polivy in combination with Rituxan (rituximab), cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and prednisone (R-CHP) was <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fda-approves-roches-polivy-combo-155324627.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved on Wednesday</a>, The combination had been approved in 2019 for use but only for patients who had undergone two prior therapies.
“It has been nearly 20 years since a new treatment option has become available to people newly diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma,” <a href="https://www.curetoday.com/view/fda-approves-polivy-regimen-for-dlbcl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Dr. Levi Garraway, chief medical officer and head of global product development for Genentech, which manufactures Polivy. “Today’s decision from the FDA to approve Polivy in combination with R-CHP in this setting brings a much-needed new treatment option which may improve outcomes and bring other benefits to many patients with this aggressive lymphoma.”
A study found that roughly 28 months after the combination was administered, a 27% reduction in the risk of disease production or death for patients occurred compared to patients who received standard of care.
“The FDA’s decision gives newly diagnosed patients with this aggressive form of lymphoma their first new treatment option in nearly two decades,” Lee Greenberger, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer of The Leukemia &amp; Lymphoma Society, <a href="https://www.lls.org/news/fda-approves-treatment-patients-newly-diagnosed-most-common-lymphoma?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=04-20-2023-LLS-FDA-Approval-DLBCL-ZGM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “One of our major goals at LLS is to support science that moves us toward less toxic, and more effective treatment options, and this drug combination is a step in that direction.”
“While this new drug is a valuable addition for some patients, we need to keep pressing forward to find even better options for DLBCL and every type of blood cancer,” Greenberger added. “But advances like polatuzumab are important, not just for today’s patients, but because science builds on itself, helping us to learn more about effective use of target drugs and harnessing the immune system to help tomorrow’s patients do even better.”
“I believe this gain in progression-free survival is clinically meaningful for patients, and also leads to a reduction in the need for subsequent therapy,” Grzegorz Nowakowski, MD, of the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center in Rochester, Minnesota, said.

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Country singer Tim McGraw helped make a young father&#8217;s wish become a reality after he was diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma and had the realization he may not be around for the day his little girls walk down the aisle.
The 55-year-old country star thanked fans and everyone who alerted him to a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/danakollermurphy/videos/875120857117323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> posted in February from Michael Hugo, 37, who had been diagnosed the year prior with brain cancer.
&#8220;Thanks to everyone who shared Mike Hugo&#8217;s video on social media and tagged me in the comments,&#8221; the country singer wrote.
&#8220;So glad we were able to actually get together in person, meet this amazing family, and make it happen!&#8221; he added along with clips showing the singer meeting Hugo and his family.
&#8220;Mike is saving the videos for his daughters&#8217; future weddings &#8230; what a special thing to be a part of,&#8221; McGraw continued.
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In the original clip, Hugo talked about how he would &#8220;fight hard&#8221; to be present the day his daughters, now 6 and 7 years old, respectively, get married, while noting that the odds of that happening were not good.
&#8220;I know the statistics,&#8221; the father explained. &#8220;The statistics for glioblastoma are a median survival of 14 months; half the people are dead by 14 months. The five-year survival is four or five percent.&#8221;
He then asked if anyone had connections to get the video to people close to the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Take The Girl&#8221; hitmaker. His wish was to create a video of him and McGraw singing a duet of his song &#8220;My Little Girl&#8221; that could then be played the day his daughters get married.
Hugo talked about how he&#8217;s written letters to them with words of wisdom that they will read on their future birthdays, and got emotional as he discussed his dream of being there the day his daughters get married, something he acknowledged is &#8220;going to be tough.&#8221;
&#8220;I did the daddy-daughter dance in Wellington, and that was awesome,&#8221; Hugo said. &#8220;That kind of made me think, &#8216;Man, I want to dance with my kids at their wedding.'&#8221;

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A Russian group of hackers <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11833591/Russian-hackers-post-NAKED-photos-Pennsylvania-cancer-patients-hospital-refused-ransom.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stole information</a> from a Pennsylvania health network and then published naked photos of cancer patients online when the hospital refused to pay a ransom.
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), comprised of 13 hospitals and 28 healthcare centers, was attacked by a group called ALPHV, nicknamed BlackCat.
“We have been in your network for a long time and have had time to study your business,” the hackers threatened on March 4. “In addition, we have stolen your confidential data and are ready to publish it. We have the data of your client base of patients, namely their passports, personal data, questionnaires, nude photos and the like. Our blog is followed by a lot of world media, the case will be widely publicized and will cause significant damage to your business.”
“Your time is running out. We are ready to unleash our full power on you!” they concluded.
After the health network refused to pay the ransom, three screenshots of cancer patients receiving radiation oncology treatment were published on the dark web, along with seven documents containing patient information, <a href="https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/business/2023/03/gang-leaks-lehigh-valley-health-network-cancer-patient-photos-as-part-of-data-hack.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lehigh Valley Live</a> reported.
“This unconscionable criminal act takes advantage of patients receiving cancer treatment, and LVHN condemns this despicable behavior,” the network stated.
In mid-February, Dr. Brian Nester, president and CEO of Lehigh Valley Health Network, released a <a href="https://6abc.com/lehigh-valley-health-network-cyberattack-hospitals-ransomware-russia-hackers/12852619/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, saying, “Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) has been the target of a cybersecurity attack by a ransomware gang, known as BlackCat, which has been associated with Russia. As of today, the attack has not disrupted LVHN&#8217;s operations. Based on our initial analysis, the attack was on the network supporting one physician practice located in Lackawanna County. We take this very seriously and protecting the data security and privacy of our patients, physicians and staff is critical.”
“This group, in particular, is unusual to some extent. They will go after hospitals because this is where the money is. And they will go after US hospitals because this is where a lot of money is, and they&#8217;ve been successful in the past,&#8221; Dr. Pablo Molina, the chief information security officer for Drexel University, <a href="https://6abc.com/lehigh-valley-health-network-cyberattack-dark-web-stolen-documents/12926619/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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LVHN asserted it is still investigating, acknowledging the attack centered on Delta Medix IT system but had limited impact on other IT systems. “We will provide notices as required to those whose information was involved,” they stated.
Lehigh Valley Health Network&#8217;s <a href="https://www.lvhn.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">history</a> began with 13 local women who raised $5,300 for a plot of land in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and opened The Allentown Hospital in 1899. Over 50 years later, a group of Lutheran clergy purchased a 102-acre field in Bethlehem, and in 1961, the Muhlenberg Hospital Center opened.
In the late 1960s, Dorothy Pool, the wife of Leonard Parker Pool, had to travel to New York City for cancer treatment. That prompted Leonard Pool to donate $5 million to help the construction of the flagship hospital of the network: Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest in Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania. That hospital contains the John and Dorothy Morgan Cancer Center, which was selected as the second member of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance in 2015.
The network features Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hospital, the only children’s hospital in the Lehigh Valley.

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In the wake of the sixth former Philadelphia Phillie to die of brain cancer, suspicions have arisen that a possible cause of their deaths was the “forever chemicals” found in the artificial turf they played on in Veterans Stadium.
Ken Brett (2003), Tug McGraw (2004), Johnny Oates (2004), John Vukovich (2007), Darren Daulton (2017), and David West (2022) all died from glioblastoma, an aggressive, deadly form of brain cancer. The Philadelphia Inquirer bought four souvenir samples of the AstroTurf from the stadium, which was demolished in 2004, and had Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Environmental Testing examine them. Results showed 16 different types of PFAS, or per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, aka “forever chemicals,” within them. University of Notre Dame researchers tested two other samples and found PFAS.
“It was just sad all the way around to lose all those guys. To lose them that way,” former Phillies pitcher Larry Christenson <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/inq2/astroturf-vet-artificial-turf-pfas-forever-chemicals-glioblastoma-cancer-phillies-1980-20230307.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Inquirer</a>. “Then you start thinking, with Vuke, Darren Daulton — it opened a can of worms: ‘Whoa. Why are all of our teammates dying? Is there something that can narrow it down?’”
Apprised of the fact that the six Phillies had died from glioblastoma, Jacob de Boer, an environmental chemist at the Free University of Amsterdam, commented, “That is such a high number that it is worrying.”
The artificial turf could reach as high as 165 degrees, releasing gases that could be inhaled. “In the dugout, the team put boxes with ice on the stairs leading up to the clubhouse,” former Phillies catcher Bob Boone recalled. “I’d come in and see guys standing with their feet in the boxes. I used to spend my day laughing at them: ‘Getting hot out there?’”
Two studies, one from China and another from Italy, posited that PFA chemicals could be linked to cancer. The Chinese study found the chemicals in brain tissue and the Italian study discovered the chemicals stored in the brains of people who drank PFAS-contaminated water.
“Once PFAS gets into [a person’s] blood, they circulate through all the organs,” University of Notre Dame physicist Graham Peaslee, who has studied PFA compounds, said. “We know that the liver is affected. We know that the kidneys are affected. We know the testicles are affected. But nobody’s ever done the study to see if the brain is affected, because glioblastoma is such a rare disease.”
Timothy Rebbeck of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, cautioned, “We’re never going to have a good measure of what the Phillies players were exposed to.”
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“The materials used in synthetic turf have been thoroughly reviewed by both federal and state government agencies and are considered to be nonhazardous,” Melanie Taylor, the president and CEO of the Synthetic Turf Council, stated. “Going forward, our members will continue to pay close attention to evolving regulations and standards to ensure the highest safety of our products.”
Brett’s daughter Sheridan, now 34, worries about the artificial turf kids still play on. “Those chemicals don’t go away,” she said. “Who is in contact with them now?”

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>’s doctor revealed on Friday that the president had cancerous tissue removed in February as part of a physical.
Biden’s doctor, Kevin O’Connor, said in a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Letter-3.3.23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> sent to White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> that the president had a “skin lesion removed from his chest” at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last month that was cancerous.
“As expected, the biopsy confirmed that the small lesion was basal cell carcinoma. All cancerous tissue was successfully removed. The area around the biopsy site was treated presumptively with electrodesiccation and curettage at the time of biopsy. No further treatment is required,” O’Connor said. 
According to O’Connor, basal cell carcinoma does not spread but can grow, meaning it could become difficult to remove. He added that Biden would continue to be under dermatological surveillance. 
Last month, O’Connor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-doctor-claims-biden-fit-to-serve-as-president-despite-no-cognitive-test" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said that</a> the physical test conducted on Biden showed that he was fit to serve as president, despite some suggestions from Republicans in Congress that Biden should undergo further cognitive tests. 
“The objective data is not going to be good. They don’t want to get picked apart because it’s not going to be good,” Rep. Ronny Jackson <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/16/biden-gets-annual-physical-as-mental-acuity-questions-swirl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Post. “They are going to be asked, ‘Did he get a cognitive exam done?’ The answer is going to be no because either they’re not going to do a cognitive exam or they’re going to do one and not let the American people know what the results were.” 
Biden, who has previously had skin cancer removed, created confusion in July when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-appears-to-claim-he-has-cancer-from-oil-refineries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared to say</a> that he currently had cancer.
“I just lived up the road in an apartment complex when we moved to Delaware, and just up the road a little school I went to, Holy Rosary grade school, and because it was a four-lane highway that was accessible, my mother drove us and rather than us be able to walk,” Biden said at an event in Massachusetts. “And guess what? The first frost, you know what was happening, you’d have to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window.”
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“That’s why I and so damn many other people I grew up [with] have cancer, and I why can’t for the longest time, Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation,” Biden continued.
The White House later noted that Biden was referring to previous cancer, not current cancer.

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Singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ed Sheeran</a> recently revealed that his wife was diagnosed with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cancer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tumor</a> while she was pregnant but chose not to pursue treatment until she gave birth to the baby. 
The 32-year-old discussed the situation while speaking about his new album, “Subtract.” 
“At the start of 2022, a series of events changed my life, my mental health, and ultimately the way I viewed music and art,” Sheeran shared on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CpPY7qyI6XB/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=e8281f2c-f4de-4c49-a671-a98d92765b09" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>. 
The British singer went on to describe how writing songs is his “therapy” and how his latest album includes his “deepest darkest thoughts.”
“Within the space of a month, my pregnant wife got told she had a tumor, with no route to treatment until after the birth. My best friend Jamal, a brother to me, died suddenly, and I found myself standing in court defending my integrity and career as a songwriter,” the “Shape of You” composer continued. 
“I was spiraling through fear, depression and anxiety. I felt like I was drowning, head below the surface, looking up but not being able to break through for air.”
The Grammy award-winner said the new album represents “opening the trapdoor” into his soul. “For the first time, I’m not trying to craft an album people will like, I’m merely putting something out that’s honest and true to where I am in my adult life,” he told social media followers.
Sheeran and his wife of four years, Cherry Seaborn, have two daughters: Lyra was born in August 2020, while Jupiter joined the family in May 2022. The couple is notoriously private about their relationship and family life.
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The “Perfect” singer previously discussed how fatherhood changed his perspective. 
&#8220;I just found that I really didn&#8217;t have purpose outside of [music] because when I was giving myself fixed time of no work, I wasn&#8217;t doing anything I enjoyed because I love doing music,&#8221; Sheeran said during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. &#8220;And [being a dad] has actually given me purpose and something in life that&#8217;s actually more important than my job.&#8221;
The singer’s new album is due out on May 5.

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