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xi_hyperon · May 17, 2005, 03:26 AM

Apparently Kylie Minogue has been diagnosed with breast cancer and has canceled the rest of her tour. I'm not a big fan of her music, but it's sad nonetheless. Hopefully she'll recover completely.

CNN article

Randman · May 17, 2005, 03:28 AM

Hmm, the missus wanted to see her upcoming show. We were going to buy tickets this weekend.

badidea · May 17, 2005, 04:11 AM

I hope she won't lose a breast.....wait, maybe she will get bigger substitution!?

Master Ken · May 17, 2005, 04:21 AM

You’re assuming she actually had any breast to start off with.

I dont understand people who wear a crop top... when there's nothing to fill it in.

xi_hyperon · May 17, 2005, 04:41 AM

Originally Posted by Master Ken

You’re assuming she actually had any breast to start off with.

I dont understand people who wear a crop top... when there's nothing to fill it in.

Piss off. Don't you have some of your girlfriend's lover's underwear to try on or something?

Zimphire · May 17, 2005, 04:59 AM

If I could smite cancer in the face, I would.

bstone · May 17, 2005, 08:35 AM

Not that simple. I am rather certain there will never be one cure for cancer. There are simply too many things which cause this disease we call "cancer". Not to say that there won't be cures and better treatments for many types of cancers.

Cadaver · May 17, 2005, 08:45 AM

That really sucks. I like her music, and she's really quite beautiful.
Hopefully what she has isn't aggressive and she can be treated with minimally invasive surgery/therapy.
But then again, breast cancer in a 37 year old tends to be a very serious problem.

:XI: · May 17, 2005, 08:52 AM

Originally Posted by badidea

I hope she won't lose a breast.....wait, maybe she will get bigger substitution!?

Keep posting crap like that. If you get banned we lose a tit.

Mastrap · May 17, 2005, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by badidea

I hope she won't lose a breast.....wait, maybe she will get bigger substitution!?

Tasteless post of the year.

E's Lil Theorem · May 17, 2005, 10:13 AM

Beyond unfortunate. I hope she recovers from it all.

ReggieX · May 17, 2005, 10:23 AM

As long as she doesn't have butt cancer.

turtle777 · May 17, 2005, 10:37 AM

-t

:XI: · May 17, 2005, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by ReggieX

As long as she doesn't have butt cancer.

Another entrant for tasteless post of the year.

turtle777 · May 17, 2005, 11:14 AM

IBL. This thread is going downhill very fast...

-t

brapper · May 17, 2005, 12:26 PM

good luck to her.
that truly sucks.

wdlove · May 17, 2005, 01:48 PM

The diagnosis of cancer is a very situation. I pray that she will fully recover.

demograph68 · May 17, 2005, 02:13 PM

Why is she famous?

OwlBoy · May 17, 2005, 02:30 PM

Originally Posted by demograph68

Why is she famous?

Music?

E's Lil Theorem · May 17, 2005, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by demograph68

Why is she famous?

In case you're not being facetious:

Kylie Ann Minogue (pronounced: /mɪn'oʊg/, to rhyme with "vogue") (born May 28, 1968) is an Australian singer and actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s as a result of her role in the Australian television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a pop singer and recording artist.

Signed to a contract by British songwriters and record producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman, Minogue achieved a string of hit records throughout the world, but her popularity began to decline by the early 1990s, leading her to part company from Stock, Aitken and Waterman in 1992. For several years she attempted to establish herself as an independent performer and songwriter, distancing herself from her earlier work. Her projects were widely publicised, but despite a couple of hit singles, her albums failed to attract a substantial audience, resulting in the lowest sales of her career.

In 2000, she returned to popularity as a dance/pop music artist and became well-known for her provocative music videos and expensively mounted stage shows. Minogue has established one of the longest and most successful careers as a performer in contemporary pop music, and in Europe and Australia has become one of her generation's most recognisable celebrities and sex symbols. In Australia, after being dismissed early in her career by many critics, she has been acclaimed for her achievements; she holds the record for the highest concert ticket sales for a female performer, and is the only female performer to place nine singles at number one on the Australian singles chart.

On May 17, 2005 it was reported that Minogue had been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, and would postpone her Showgirl, The Greatest Hits world tour while she received medical treatment in Melbourne.[1]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylie_Minogue

ReggieX · May 17, 2005, 02:43 PM

If you haven't seen her "Come Into My World" video, you must ASAP.

demograph68 · May 17, 2005, 03:11 PM

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...dItemId=569249

Not her. Ughh.

OwlBoy · May 17, 2005, 03:23 PM

Originally Posted by demograph68

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/M...dItemId=569249

Not her. Ughh.

So ugly people deserve pain and suffering, maybe death because you feel they are not attractive?

-Owl

demograph68 · May 17, 2005, 03:29 PM

Uh, sure. :/

OwlBoy · May 17, 2005, 04:48 PM

Originally Posted by demograph68

Uh, sure. :/

hey, sorry if I took your words as sarcasm and they were not.

-Owl

FulcrumPilot · May 17, 2005, 06:09 PM

While I do feel sad about any human who is afflicted with cancer let me just ask how many kids die due to malnutrion and disease in this world everyday when they can indeed be prevented?

DeathMan · May 18, 2005, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by FulcrumPilot

While I do feel sad about any human who is afflicted with cancer let me just ask how many kids die due to malnutrion and disease in this world everyday when they can indeed be prevented?

There is a political problem going on there. Saying they can simply be prevented is oversimplification. Cancer is a scientific problem. But neither problem is solvable right now. There has to be progress made, whether political or scientific. We don't bring up car crashes in these threads either. Doesn't mean we don't feel bad.

I know there are many here who contribute to humanitarian efforts.

Cody Dawg · 02:22 AM

That really sucks. I like her music, and she's really quite beautiful.
Hopefully what she has isn't aggressive and she can be treated with minimally invasive surgery/therapy.
But then again, breast cancer in a 37 year old tends to be a very serious problem.

It really disturbs me that women are being diagnosed younger and younger with breast cancer.

Kylie Minogue and guess who else? Amy Osbourne, the Osbourne's daughter, who is only 21. 21!

Then there is Laura Ingraham (I know she's a right-winger, but who cares, really) who is only 38. Melissa Ethridge, 41 years of age, etc.

It used to be that women were at risk in their 50s and beyond.

I had my own breast cancer scare. We had our baby one year ago and right around Christmas I noticed a problem with a breast and had to go to my ob/gyn doctor. (Women's breasts are very lumpy anyway so it's hard to tell what is what as a general rule.) I was nursing my baby so he said, "Oh, it's probably nothing because you're a nursing mother, but come on in anyway and I'll see what I think." It was very subtle, like the size of a pea, and it was hard. I thought he'd say, "Oh, it's nothing. It's from breastfeeding a baby. Go home."

When the doctor says, "Yes, there's definitely a lump there and you need to have a mammogram done right away and have a specialist look at it," you feel your heart drop. It's a terrible feeling.

I had to go to a clinic that specializes in high-tech mammograms because I was a nursing mother and a simple mammogram x-ray machine was not sophisticated enough. I had to see Dr. Sandra Mondro (who actually looks just like Holly Hunter - petite, pretty, and small, but very smart and sharp - she does lectures at Harvard) for a follow-up.

You go in and they can feel the lump and then they do the mammogram along with an ultrasound. You're laying there and they leave and then they come back and you just feel so sick to your stomach.

I was very very fortunate because she came back and said that everything looked fine and they could not detect any calcifications on a mammogram and they could not see any sort of cyst or tumors on an ultrasound. They then sent an official letter to me and trust me, that's a letter that every woman saves.

This is the thing: Every woman needs to go in every single year and get a mammogram done and it's nerve-wracking and upsetting.

However, these new machines can detect the most minute calcifications at a very early stage - sometimes as much as 8 years before they become tumors or breast cancers.

My point is that it is SO very important to convince all the women that you love or care about to go in and get that mammogram done. That is the only way to save lives.

I started getting them done when I turned 28 and every two years after that. Now I get them done once a year.

Just encourage the women you know to get a check-up. Though the self exam in the shower is good (once a month carefully feel the breasts, under the arm in the armpit, using small circles and soapy hands so that the skin is smooth), a mammogram is really the best. It is no longer a disease that only affects older women: It is affecting all women of all ages.

Because you love them, tell your wife, mother, girlfriend, friend, all of them, to get a mammogram done. Most places have programs in place to pay for mammograms for those women who cannot afford it and insurance companies definitely pay for it. It might save a life.

Women whose breast cancers are detected early have a 95% survival rate.

xi_hyperon · May 18, 2005, 02:45 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

It really disturbs me that women are being diagnosed younger and younger with breast cancer.

My mom (who had breast cancer a few years ago) works at the oncology dept. of a hospital here, and says it is scary how many young people have cancer.

Face Ache · May 18, 2005, 02:53 AM

Originally Posted by badidea

I hope she won't lose a breast.....wait, maybe she will get bigger substitution!?

Back when I worked in theatres at a children's hospital I once overheard a nine year-old brown-eyed girl who was about to have one eye removed ask her mother if her new eye could be a blue one. Sad stuff.

Dex13 · May 18, 2005, 03:03 AM

when I found out about this... i was so ****ing sad. i grabbed my mix tape (yes tape) from my car and started listening to the fever over and over.

i wish i wasn't a deist so he could come over and fix this.

Master Ken · 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by Face Ache

Back when I worked in theatres at a children's hospital I once overheard a nine year-old brown-eyed girl who was about to have one eye removed ask her mother if her new eye could be a blue one. Sad stuff.

SHUTUP YOU!
Dont turn a blind eye to the fact that
She might just grow to like her new glass eye... How would you know?

(i cant speak english... AT ALL... because im stupid like the bees)

Cody Dawg · May 18, 2005, 03:36 AM

Take some English lessons then come back and post, will ya?

badidea · May 18, 2005, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by :XI:

Keep posting crap like that. If you get banned we lose a tit.

Originally Posted by Mastrap

Tasteless post of the year.

Well guys, I am sorry if you have a problem with my post...but I used to work for a phatologist and had to deal with that kind of cancer almost every day and I had to carry and look at lots of cut off tits -> that's when you start to take it with humor (and it's one of the most common and least perilous cancers for women - she is not going to die!!)!

ASIMO · May 18, 2005, 02:29 PM

Originally Posted by badidea

Well guys, I am sorry if you have a problem with my post...but I used to work for a phatologist and had to deal with that kind of cancer almost every day and I had to carry and look at lots of cut off tits -> that's when you start to take it with humor (and it's one of the most common and least perilous cancers for women - she is not going to die!!)!

And is it not too early to proclaim your post as tasteless of the year? It is not even half-time.

Cody Dawg · May 18, 2005, 03:18 PM

Well guys, I am sorry if you have a problem with my post...but I used to work for a phatologist and had to deal with that kind of cancer almost every day and I had to carry and look at lots of cut off tits

Wow. Your sensitivity and compassion amazes me and touches my heart.

(i cant speak english... AT ALL... because im stupid like the bees)

Okay. You're forgiven then. There is almost some poetry in a statement, "Because I am stupid like the bees." That's almost kind of deep.

turtle777 · 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Master Ken

SHUTUP YOU!
Dont turn a blind eye to the fact that
She might just grow to like her new glass eye... How would you know?

-t

Goldfinger · May 18, 2005, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by ASIMO

And is it not too early to proclaim your post as tasteless of the year? It is not even half-time.

Am I the only one that understands what badidea means ? Thinking about the horribleness is not something you do while being a phatologist (or phatologist's little helper), you'll go nuts otherwise.

Cadaver · May 18, 2005, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Goldfinger

Am I the only one that understands what badidea means ? Thinking about the horribleness is not something you do while being a phatologist (or phatologist's little helper), you'll go nuts otherwise.

What the hell is a "phatologist" anyway? Someone who studies things that are phat?

Person Man · May 18, 2005, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by Cadaver

What the hell is a "phatologist" anyway? Someone who studies things that are phat?

I was going to say the same thing

Person Man · May 18, 2005, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by wdlove

The diagnosis of cancer is a very situation. I pray that she will fully recover.

Care to define what a "very situation" is?

DeathMan · May 19, 2005, 04:36 AM

wow, this thread is going nowhere. I thought at least someone would cheer the thread up with some pics or something. Of Kylie, not Bikerfox, or that Peter Pan guy, or cameltoes. None of those are allowed.

badidea · May 19, 2005, 04:39 AM

Originally Posted by Cadaver

What the hell is a "phatologist" anyway? Someone who studies things that are phat?

...asked by "cadaver"?!?

A "phatalogist" is a pathologist with a typo! Seems like you're not very good in interpreting...

:XI: · May 19, 2005, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by Person Man

Care to define what a "very situation" is?

Clearly, there is no word to describe just how very the situation is.

d.fine · May 19, 2005, 06:12 AM

Sucks, hope she recovers 100% ...

Cody Dawg · May 19, 2005, 07:31 AM

You want a good picture of Kylie? Here you go. Everyone likes Kylie because although she can act sexy and erotic, she is very wholesome and beautiful. She is also a very good person. For years she has been donating her time and money to breast cancer awareness, so it is very sad and ironic that she is now diagnosed with it.

Everyone all over the world loves Kylie. She's like a tiny little angel.

Randman · May 19, 2005, 07:32 AM

She look really old there. Not a flattering picture of her.

Cody Dawg · May 19, 2005, 07:59 AM

I doubt many people think "she looks 'old.' If you have one that's better post it and stop complaining.

Randman · May 19, 2005, 08:06 AM

It wasn't a complaint, just a comment. There is a difference. Check a dictionary.

http://www.oldsocks.co.uk/pictures/K...0Minogue_2.jpg

http://www.wrc-wallpaper.de/wall/Kyl...inogue%201.jpg

demograph68 · May 19, 2005, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Everyone all over the world loves Kylie.

Just not me.