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    • June 16, 2014 at 7:40 pm
    JC
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      As I was watching the U.S. Open golf tournament yesterday and Martin Kaymer was running away with it, they mentioned the recent passing of his mother “due to complications from skin cancer.”  She died from melanoma, and I just wonder why they use the terminology “complications from skin cancer” on the national broadcast, instead of saying “melanoma.”  It seems like an opportunity to educate the viewing public.  I don’t know, maybe I’m reading too much into it or being too picky.  When well-known people die of cancer, the media usually says “colon cancer” or ““stomach cancer”. . not “complications from metabolic cancer.”

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        • June 17, 2014 at 4:12 am
        Gene_S
        Participant

          RE:  It seems like an opportunity to educate the viewing public.    About What?

          My guess is that she was on a treatment that had  failed,  thus complications from skin cancer”

          I feel that a much bigger disservice is when the obit states that they died from cancer.

          • June 17, 2014 at 4:12 am
          Gene_S
          Participant

            RE:  It seems like an opportunity to educate the viewing public.    About What?

            My guess is that she was on a treatment that had  failed,  thus complications from skin cancer”

            I feel that a much bigger disservice is when the obit states that they died from cancer.

            • June 17, 2014 at 4:12 am
            Gene_S
            Participant

              RE:  It seems like an opportunity to educate the viewing public.    About What?

              My guess is that she was on a treatment that had  failed,  thus complications from skin cancer”

              I feel that a much bigger disservice is when the obit states that they died from cancer.

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