Molly Ivins Rejoins the Battle
Wednesday March 15, 2006
Nationally syndicated left-of-center columnist Molly Ivins has started chemotherapy for a recurrence of her breast cancer. Her diagnosis was in 1999, with a first recurrence of inflammatory breast cancer in 2003. She didn't announce this latest return of the cancer until she was two months into treatment, saying that, "God knows I don't need another casserole." Ivins is well-loved in Austin, Texas, where she is based, and she was overwhelmed by an outpouring of support at the time of her first diagnosis.
Ivins has not slowed down despite her treatments, and has continued to produce well-written liberal invective. Her targets include the camera-ready hair of Texas governor Rick Perry, and "our only President" George W. Bush, better known as "Shrub," as she titled her book on him. She shows no signs of slowing down or taking a break from writing her twice-weekly column. "Maybe this is false bravado," she said. "In some ways for me, this is like having a manageable disease. It's like diabetes. It doesn't mean it's not going to come get me in the end."
Molly Ivins has been the co-editor of The Texas Observer, a liberal newspaper that "writes about issues ignored or underreported in the mainstream press."
Read more from Molly Ivins at the Imflammatory Breast Cancer Survivors site.
Read more about Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research on the IBC Research site.
Ivins has not slowed down despite her treatments, and has continued to produce well-written liberal invective. Her targets include the camera-ready hair of Texas governor Rick Perry, and "our only President" George W. Bush, better known as "Shrub," as she titled her book on him. She shows no signs of slowing down or taking a break from writing her twice-weekly column. "Maybe this is false bravado," she said. "In some ways for me, this is like having a manageable disease. It's like diabetes. It doesn't mean it's not going to come get me in the end."
Molly Ivins has been the co-editor of The Texas Observer, a liberal newspaper that "writes about issues ignored or underreported in the mainstream press."
Read more from Molly Ivins at the Imflammatory Breast Cancer Survivors site.
Read more about Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research on the IBC Research site.
Comments
Thank you so very much for the information you have on inflammatory breast cancer! Educating people that there is more than one type of breast cancer and you don’t have to have a lump to have breast cancer WILL save lives! Molly Ivins is an inspiration to so many ibc patients and wish her well. This type of breast cancer is usually NOT detected with mammograms and/or ultrasounds, so knowing the symptoms is essential AND knowing chemotherapy is the first protocol can save lives as ibc is in the dermal lymphatic system. Thank you again for the information on this immediately staged IIIb disease.
If you can please add the ibcresearch.org site, this would be appreciated. The Foundation has educational information, 2 support lists and a special advocacy email list where we don’t discuss health issues but brainstorm on how to get word out not just to the general public but to physicians, nurses, technicians, etc: