| Olmert says he has prostate cancer
Prostate cancer and treatment options are in public focus as Israeli PM Olmert reveals that he has prostate cancer, but will stay on the post. Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday he had prostate cancer, but that it was not life-threatening, and he would continue to perform his duties. "I have a tumor of the prostate in the very early stages... It is a minor tumor that can be surgically removed. This is not life-threatening and is treatable," he told a news conference. Olmert said the tumor was revealed during a routine medical examination, and it will not require radiation treatment or chemotherapy The consulting physicians told the news conference the tumor did not require urgent surgery, and that in such cases surgery to remove the tumor was usually performed no earlier than six weeks after the initial biopsy.
Detours on the road to renewal
Two years ago, her four-month engagement to Tour de France cycling champ Lance Armstrong imploded. It was just weeks before the wedding day and Crow had even posed for a magazine shoot in a Vera Wang gown. It wasn't the only bad news. Later that same February Crow was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer. She underwent surgery and 33 sessions of radiation therapy over two months. The treatment was a complete success; the cancer was caught before it spread. But Crow admits that a slow recovery in the shadow of possible relapse "is an antidote to smugness". "You think you have control over your life," she says. "In some of us the tendency is more pronounced. But no matter who you are, you realise, you're pretty helpless when it comes to the really big stuff: life, love.
Stagehand gets financial direction
It was a regular day of moving sets and hanging lights for veteran stagehand John Santagata. Then, in an instant, something went wrong. The 43-year-old from Merrick, L.I., was working at his current job, "Young Frankenstein," when a loaded forklift rolled over his left foot. Doctors at St. Vincent's hospital found three breaks in the foot and pinned it together with screws. The timing couldn't have been worse. The accident happened on Sept. 11 of last year, right before Santagata's busiest season when holiday crowds and packed theaters typically mean plenty of work for stagehands. He was off the job for two and half months — some of the time overlapped with the 19-day stagehand strike — and worker's compensation brought him only a fraction of his pay.
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