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Grey's Anatomy Star's Cancer Battle
Eric Dane was diagnosed with skin cancer just last month. After successfully having treated the disease, the actor is now opening op to OK! magazine about his struggle.
The Grey's Anatomy star first detected something was wrong when he looked in the mirror and saw what looked like chapped lips but clearly wasn’t.
“I went to my dermatologist,” Dane tells OK!. “He said it was malignant tissue caused by sun damage."
The malignancy was treated by freezing the cancerous tissue off with liquid nitrogen. Unfortunately for Eric, the actor had a severe reaction to a cream given to him for his lip after the treatment . “My skin is very sensitive and my lip was traumatized by the procedure I had to go through.”
His lip’s overreaction to the medication created a painful scenario that made eating difficult, if not impossible. “I didn’t eat very well for a couple of weeks and lost a bunch of weight,” Eric explains, estimating that he dropped at least 10 pounds off his 6'1" frame while dealing with his cancer.
Thankfully, though, Dane is better now.
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jerseypanda
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Re: Grey's Anatomy Star's Cancer Battle
Hope they caught it in time for him.
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| Posted 2/6/08 9:33 AM |
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evnme
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Re: Grey's Anatomy Star's Cancer Battle
 Love you Mc. Steamy
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| Posted 2/6/08 8:34 PM |
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nov04libride
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Re: Grey's Anatomy Star's Cancer Battle
Did anyone else think scary weight loss meant more than 10 lbs?  In reality, this skin cancer is not that serious--my father has them frozen off several times a year--and to make it front cover kind of to me detracts from those with more serious illnesses...
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jax1023
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Re: Grey's Anatomy Star's Cancer Battle
Posted by nov04libride
Did anyone else think scary weight loss meant more than 10 lbs? In reality, this skin cancer is not that serious--my father has them frozen off several times a year--and to make it front cover kind of to me detracts from those with more serious illnesses...
I also thought this was a pretty lame story. 10 pounds is like nothing in weight loss, its not like he was a stick to begin with. To read the cover, you'd think he had terminal cancer, not a tiny skin cancer which is now gone.
Although I suppose its a better story than more Britney.
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nov04libride
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Re: Grey's Anatomy Star's Cancer Battle
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Posted by nov04libride
Did anyone else think scary weight loss meant more than 10 lbs? In reality, this skin cancer is not that serious--my father has them frozen off several times a year--and to make it front cover kind of to me detracts from those with more serious illnesses...
I also thought this was a pretty lame story. 10 pounds is like nothing in weight loss, its not like he was a stick to begin with. To read the cover, you'd think he had terminal cancer, not a tiny skin cancer which is now gone.
Although I suppose its a better story than more Britney.
That's exactly what I thought--it seems life-threatening by the way the cover sounds.
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