Valerie Harper diagnosed with terminal brain cancer

ValerieHarper, 73 y/o an actress says she may have as little as three months to live. The iconic actress was given a prognosis of three months to live by doctors. The actress has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and may have as little as three months to live , according to People Magazine. She played Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”.

Harper also told the magazine she has Leptomeningeal Carcinomatosis , a rare condition that occurs when cancer cells spread into the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain.

Harper says she got the diagnosis after feeling numbness in her jaw during rehearsals for her one-woman show Looped on Jan. 11.

“(I) was rehearsing away, and then it was as if I had Novocaine,” she told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Jan. 21.

“I thought, what the heck is happening to me?” she recalled. “(I) went to the hospital, and they couldn’t find much of anything.”

Further testing confirmed she had the incurable disease.

“I was stunned,” she told People. “And in the next minute I thought, ‘This could draw more attention to cancer research.’”

“This is a really complicated condition,” her neuro-oncologist, Dr.Jeremy Rudnick, told People. “The spinal fluid is a collection of fluid tha’s being circulated (through the brain) kind of like a sink. The fluid itself is growing cancer cells, so they are multiplying in there. Those cells start to coat the brain.”

Harper is now undergoing chemotherapy, but her doctor said she may have only a few months left.

Source: nydialynews

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