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Jo Ann, Cancer and idiopathic (spontaneously occurring) PD are not related. Your friend must be confused or misheard- or the media source that she got it from is mistaken (and irresponsible). Charlie At 11:49 PM 12/15/00 -0500, you wrote: >Hi Gang - The strangest thing happened. My friend of 42 years called me >tonight and said she saw on TV a couple of nights ago, that this >celebrity had PD, and it was in remisison and it was a form of brain >cancer. Now, I've been on the list since Nov. 1999, and I've never heard >anyone say anything about it being a type of cancer, and we have some >great physicians and RN's and CG's on the list, as well as PWP's. Tell >me what do you thing? Could she have misunderstood the person's dx? Jo >Ann Charles T. Meyer, M.D. Middleton, WI PD DX 12 years (at age 44) Age 56