Judy Garland's daughter Lorna Luft diagnosed with brain cancer

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/mar/10/lorna-luft-diagnosed-with-brain-tumour-after-collapsing
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Lorna Luft, the daughter of US actor Judy Garland, has been diagnosed with a brain tumour after collapsing following a performance in London.

The singer, 65, was “forgetting lyrics and monologue” before she collapsed back stage at the Pizza Express Jazz Club on Friday night.

She was rushed to hospital by her husband, Colin Freeman, who had been concerned for Luft during her performance, spokeswoman Victoria Varela said.

She added she had been “initially diagnosed with a brain tumour”.
Luft, an Emmy-winning TV producer and Broadway star, is currently in remission from breast cancer, which she has had for more than six years.

Varela said: “Luft was rushed to hospital by Colin Freeman, her husband, who was also concerned that she was forgetting lyrics and monologue.

[PasadenaTrudy]

1. Now there's a name

I haven't seen in decades!

[malaise]

2. Isn't that the truth

[redstatebluegirl]

3. That is a diagnosis I would not wish on anyone. A friend died of that it is a terrible way to die.

[Initech]

6. Yes one of my dad's best friends is going through this now.

I wouldn't wish that on anybody.,

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Hopefully it is benign when it's removed and the pathology concluded.

A glioblastoma is the deadliest form of brain cancer as well as the fastest-progressing.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. She was..or is....in remission for breast cancer diagnosed more than six years ago.

Doesn't look good.

I asked my oncologist 2 years ago...if breast cancer shows up in another part of the body, say the liver, what is it called?
He said it is still called breast cancer, not liver cancer.
Forgot to ask him how they know the difference, but assume it is because different cancers have different characteristics that can be seen in the lab.