Grey's Anatomy Star's Cancer Battle!
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Eric Dane was diagnosed with skin cancer just last month. After successfully having treated the disease, the actor is now opening up to OK! magazine about his struggle.
We're gonna try and not be a cynic for a moment. Hopefully Dane is speaking out to increase awareness and encourage people to get examined regularly. And, if he did get paid for the interview, which he probably did, hopefully he's donating the money to some cancer charity!
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.”
That doesn't sound very pleasant!
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.
We need McSteamy around for a while!
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it means the world to meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
He would still be delicious- even without lips.
i am first AGAIN fuckerssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
too bad
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I KNOW I WAS FIRST, THIS IS 3RD
I AM THE SHIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
I hope he get better.
Ahhh, I love him
NOOOOO ERICS TOO SEXY TO DIE!!!! …first?
WHERE ARE ALL MY FUCKING COMMENTS???
I WAS FIRST BITCHES
I AM FIRST
TODAY AND ALWAYS
FUCK U ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
poor mcsteamy!
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HIS FUGLY FLAT ASSED WIFE SHOULD BE THE ONE WITH CANCER AS SHE RAN OVER THAT LITTLE BOY YEARS AGO AND EVEN AFTER THAT SHE CRASHED ANOTHER CAR, ACCORDING TO HER DAD. DUMB WHITE BITCH SHOULD DIE. I HOPE SHE HAS NIGHTMARES EVERY TIME SHE GETS BEHIND THE WHEEL
HIS FUGLY FLAT ASSED WIFE SHOULD BE THE ONE WITH CANCER AS SHE RAN OVER THAT LITTLE BOY YEARS AGO AND EVEN AFTER THAT SHE CRASHED ANOTHER CAR, ACCORDING TO HER DAD. DUMB WHITE BITCH SHOULD DIE. I HOPE SHE HAS NIGHTMARES EVERY TIME SHE GETS BEHIND THE WHEEL
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Sheesh, what a minor ordeal. Awareness is great but they billed it like he had half his intestines removed and went through chemo. A sore lip and losing 10 pounds is not a coverstory worthy hardship.
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OH PLEASE !!!!!
IT'S FUCKING SKIN CANCER !!!! EASY TO CURE !!!!!
what a DRAMA QUEEN.
try dealing with lung cancer, or liver cancer — or go through what farrah fawcett is going through.
what a fool.
this is story is sooooooo PATHETIC, what happened with US magazine, they did not hav e anything better to put onthe cover. Believe me, I know that Cancer is a very sensitive issue, but this McIDIOT is talking about it for publicity for HIMSELF!!! not because he cares about raising awareness or money for the cancer fight…..
He should just have kept it to himself
IDIOT!!!!!!!!!
skin cancer? give me a fuckin break… it's not like he was dying of melanoma, like some people do! what a retarded grasp for publicity. 10 pounds?! oh noooooo… if I get the flu I'll drop 10 lbs. I don't see the big deal. Wear sunscreen next time, tard.
i've had those things frozen off of my face many times.
it takes 2 seconds, and it heals up in a few days. NO PAIN.
how embarrasing for him acting like it's a big deal !!! it's NOTHING.
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Still so irritated
His fuc***ng Lips were chapped!!!!! US magazine calls it "a fight against cancer" WTF???? how many timesdid he endure chemo??? radiation????. He went to the dermatologist and they took care of it…probably in a 20 minute session of scrubing the damn lips…..HARDLY a fight
Are you freaking kidding me? Skin cancer is not serious.
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Still so irritated
His fuc***ng Lips were chapped!!!!! US magazine calls it "a fight against cancer" WTF???? how many times did he endure chemo??? radiation????. He went to the dermatologist and they took care of it…probably in a 20 minute session of scrubing the damn lips…..HARDLY a fight
this is so stupid…. I cant stand the idiot. I have a family member that died of lung cancer, and my best friend had a cancerous tumor in her brain (and survied thank god)….I guess thats why i find this story so stupid he better be donating that money to a cancer charity…IDIOT
pathetic. this joker had actinic keratoosis (sun damage which may be a PRE-cancerous change) and is pumping it as though he nearly lost his life.
perez, you've got a lot of MD fans here (me among them) so dare to be different and check these medical PR stunts out rather than being a common gossip-monger whose professional condcut is guided by sensationalism rather than integrity.
Oh booo the fuck hooo. Dumb ass had freaking chapped lips. He is pathetic.
famewhore is there anything people wont do for a buck?
FUCK! FIRST OF ALL PEREZ, YOUR FIRST CONCERN SHOULDN'T BE WHETHER HE'S GETTING PAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AFTER ALL PEREZ, YOU'VE YET TO ANSWER ALLEGATIONS THAT THE CLINTON CAMP PAID YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. I'M INCLINED TO BELIEVE THEY DIDN'T..NOT BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T TAKE IT BUT BECAUSE I THINK HILLARY WANTS TO KEEP HER NOSE AS CLEAN AS POSSIBLE.
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SECOND OF ALL, HOLY FUCK. JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW FRAGILE WE ALL ARE AS HUMANS. HERE'S ERIC DANE…TOTAL BEAUTIFUL HUNK OF A MAN IN THE HOTTEST SHOW ON TV…AND EVEN A YOUNG STUD LIKE HIM CAN GET SICK. THINK OF THAT THE NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO GET SNIPPY WITH A WAITER OR A CLERK. THAT PERSON YOU CUT OFF ON THE FREEWAY THIS AM MAY HAVE JUST LOST HER MOTHER FOR EXAMPLE.
fuck him and his ugly ass wife
Fuck HIM! A MONTH??? and it was successfully treated? Gimme a fucking break! Ive been battling it for 5 years and just had a huge chunk of my neck and chest cut out a week ago and still dont have the pathology report back to know if it was successful or not.
one month doesnt not equal a 'battle'. piss on him.
Give me a fucking break. It's an insult to all the people who really suffer from cancer. Why don't they talk about the person his cunt wife killed? Better yet, shave the bitch's head to make a wig for someone with serious cancer.
any kind of cancer is bad. you shouldnt sit there and compare fucking diseases agaisnt each other like a bunch of fucking morons. people die from skin cancer too so shut the fuck up!
hope he gets better we need some mcsteamy
umm, ok. No offense, but I'm in med school, and it's not like this guy had a MELANOMA (i.e. cancer that metastasizes, spreading everywhere in the body). In that case, they would have cut out a chunk of his lip and he'd be deformed. He most likely had an actinic keratosis, which is easy to freeze off, and even if it turned into squamous cell carcinoma, it's not exactly as DEADLY as he's making it out to be. His reaction was to the nitrogen that was used to freeze off the AK, not the "cancer" itself, what a whiny bitch!
Not McSteamy! I so didn't know that! Scary - Poor thing.
i agree! wow a month! 10 lbs! thats fucking nothing! my fater will be dead in 3 months from pancreatic cancer, and in 3 months hes list 50 lbs!!. so you couldnt eat for a few weeks oh no. a wifes heartbreak, ya fucking right. a wifes heart break would be my 54 yr old mother missing the man who used to be her husband, not knowing what she is going to do while she sits there watching the man she loves die. or telling me how she wants to kill herself. my father cant come to my wedding on valentines day. you had to skip a few meals? big deal. ok magazine should put up a real survivor story , fuck you mcdillhole.
Wow. I was afraid I was being an asshole when I was about to say fuck you to OK magazine for making a big deal out of this. Obviously Perez Hilton readers more than outdo me. Yeah skin cancer isn't fun but it's the least lethal cancer there is with only killing 5% of its victims and he probably didn't even have a melanoma which is the cancer that kills those 5%. I've known many people with simple skin cancers like that which repeat and every couple years they need to get it freezed off or something. Big fucking deal. And 10 pounds in a month? OMG. I've done that easy.
I'm sorry. This really pisses me off. Wake me up when you have a real problem to complain about.
Re: tdawg –
People don't die from the type of skin cancer he had. They die from melanoma, which is serious. Check your facts. Glad for you that obviously no one close to you actually suffered from cancer.
whatever! he's totally hot as hell.
I can't believe how awful some of you are. That itself is offensive to those who are effected by any type of cancer in any stage. Skin cancer is serious! My 21 year old cousin is DYING right now of skin cancer, because she used tanning beds just like every other girl at her high school. She won't live another year but it could have been completely prevented. It spreads to other parts of your body- in her case, it went to her lungs and since she has never smoked a day in her life they didn't catch it until stage 4- don't think that skin cancer is just something you can always cut or freeze off, especially if you don't notice it. Don't think that it takes years and years of damage to effect you- she JUST turned 21. If his interview helps raise any sort of awareness, then I applaud him.
WEAR SUNSCREEN. Protect yourself. For my cousin it is too late. If anything, do it for people like her. You don't know what you have!
"Skin cancer is easy to deal with." Please stop spreading this lie! People like you are the reason young men and women are dying from exposure! It hurts so much to read something like that when someone close to you is about to die from skin cancer! Cancer spreads!
Re: exile on main street – You do realize that melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer with the lowest cure rate right? Although it obviously sounds like he didn't have melanoma, skin cancer isn't by any means easy to cure.
I MEAN REALLY ANGELINA IS ABSOLUTELY DIVINE! Mirror Mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all? La Divina Angelina of course, that's all…
why would you hope he donates the money???
It's no different to any other star talking about their personal problems.
He can do what he wants with his money, I find it weird that you randomly came out with that for this guy
he looks like Mark Wahlberg (not sure if the spelling is right)
Actually, a cross between him and Heath.
Re: kelpie – oh my god how DARE you!! my dad had malignant melonoma and believe me its serious - it is a very harsh form of cancer that spreads very quickly, into lymph nodes, blood, other body organs. its just as bad as any other cancer - people who play it down are idiots. and the thing is the doctor told my dad that chemo isnt an option really. luckily they caught my dads before it spread *hopefully* although it had gone quite deep. he has to have his skin monitored and go back every 3 months for check ups to make sure it hasnt spread / doesnt come back. Dont be so ignorant about this its a very serious type of cancer - our family went through HELL with worry each time he had tests and we waited for results!! Luckily this guy had his removed in time, i hope he is ok.
Re: exile on main street – not easy to cure if its spread to lymph nodes, all other organs and ur brain!!!! stop playing it down it is very serious and comments like that are very upsetting to people who hav been through the ordeal of skin cancer and their families, and people who have had family members die from it! i hope if u ever get it that they catch it in time…
Re: niki – excuse me- if u read it says 'malignancy' meaning malignant melonoma!! which is SERIOUS and you can die from it! get wise!! and by the way ppl who are sayin use sunscreen - malignant melonoma doesnt just come because of the sun - my dad was never a sun worshipper - it can be in the genes and form simply from a mutation in a gene - go ask ur doctor. i have 50% chance of getting it, so i have to be monitored so they can get rid at the first sign of it
Re: big deal ! – what type did you have?? basal cell/some other kind/ or melonoma?? melonoma is a big deal and believe me it takes more than freezing something off - my dad had to keep having chuncks of skin cut out to try to get rid of it - u should have seen the scars on his back. think befor u speak LOOK UP MALIGNANT MELONOMA ON THE INTERNET AND UL SEE HOW SERIOUS IT IS. - its one of the most COMMON CANCERS PEOPLE DIE OF
people DIE of skin cancer u MORONS!!! how dare u say that its nothing!! that is very offensive! it is an AGGRESSIVE type of cancer which once it spreads is VERY DIFFICULT TO TREAT!! get ur facts right! go look on the internet about malignant melonoma! - it may just OPEN UR EYES!
Skin Cancer is a big deal - U can die from it - I should know
Wow. What a battle.
I myself have already been through surgery, five of six chemo treatments, will need more surgery to remove body parts, and will have that followed up by physical therapy and two months of radiation. I am bald, sick from the chemo, bloated from the steroids, hating the side effects of all the meds I have to take, not looking forward to losing parts of my body and am dreading having to do this five more months. When I am done, I will have been undergoing some sort of cancer related treatments for a year.
But… Eric Dane, what can I say. Your trip to the dermatologist and your ten pound weight loss must have been traumatic. Certainly worthy of a front page on a tabloid. What a nightmare. I can only imagine how horrible it must have been. Glad you caught it early.
You'll have to excuse me though. Some of us have the serious sh*t to get through, and won't even get a mention in a local newspaper much less a national tab.
People do die from skin cancer but most dont. 10 pounds isnt a scary weightloss. Typical OK making this out to be a big deal when its not.
seriously jon lester from the red sox was seriously ill. yea hsure skin cancer is a killer too, but try having cancer on and off for three fucking years like me. It's not fun especially since i'm raising a two year old alone… damn
A Mole!!! He had a fucking MOLE removed!!! His "Fight" lasted about ten minutes and then he had a couple of stitches! Candy ASS!!! Ooooooh! The cream gave him a reaction! What an insult to all those out there actually fighting cancer who don't need nor want sympathy.
THATS RIGHT I'M A CANCER SURVIVOR. A LONG TIME AGO I HAD CLITORIS CANCER. MY LESBIAN LOVER CHEWED IT OFF. I HAVE BEEN CANCER FREE FOR 5 YEARS NOW. I CAN'T HAVE AN ORGASM BUT AT LEAST THERE'S NO MORE BOO BOO ON MY HOO HOO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
WOW! Scary coincidence… just came back from the dermatologists for my 6 monthly check-up!… EVERYONE should get their skin checked out… no matter whether you are out in the sun a lot or not! Skin cancer is on the increase amongst young people.. if in doubt… get it checked!
It's scary whenever anyone gets cancer. Did you notice how they intentionally left out what type of skin cancer it was. Basil Cell probably….. maybe squamas (sp?) I'm sure if it was the most aggressive type "melanoma" they would have definitely listed it…………. The other two are non life threatening if treated. Basil Cell takes about 20 year (if neglected), to do any serious harm
Some people posting comments have no clue when they say this is not serirous. I knew someone who ignored the same thing on their lip and she lost part of her face and almost her life. I think it is very brave and important that he came forward with this information.
If your skin cancer is a melanoma, it is very serious and scary - and you could die from it. If the doctors are successful in removing it, it could come back anywhere and at anytime — lymph nodes, organs, brain, etc. You don't know and you're always checking and hoping you don't find a lump somewhere. You can be young/old/in the prime of your life.
It is something that no one should take lightly. I do not wish this on anyone. Please protect yourselves from the sun and if you have kids, protect them too.
Cancer-Schmancer….This dude it too hot to let go of. He needs to show more skin…I'm tired of watching him wearing clothes. Maybe GA can script a dream sequence where he's operating on anyone while naked…just his surgical mask (hides the skin cancer). Then he could romp around the hospital with sharp objects and a stethascope (sp?). I'm glad he's all better…maybe now we'll get to see him more and McDreamy less. How Patrick Dempsey got that title I'll never know
Perez who the hell are u to comment on whether someone gets paid for something or not-and even worse tell them where the money should go! You're such a dumb hypocrite and instead of wasting time on posting your idiotic opinions you should put it to better use such as spell check-website has gone way down man
Even better, he shows his DARK SIDE by being a CUTTER after hours….He goes to Seattles Gay bars and picks up young twinks who fall madly in "love" with him and let him play DOCTOR ….surgical sex….until the sun comes up. OMG! What a twist in the plot…McSteamy & Hyde….this could go on for several seasons without anyone ever expecting a thing until, of course, Dexter finds a scrotum in a bag of Bugles from a vending machine in the CIS cafeteria…THIS THING WRITES ITSELF!!! What Writer's Strike????
please don't crack fun at this!!! this is NOT FUNNY and a very serious problem….. I had my fifth melanoma cut out last week & I'm only 21 years old!!!! I hope he raises much needed awareness to this cancer and donates that moolah to charity… or better yet, why not start one?! Isn't that the thing to do these days?
It is very difficult mentally, not simply physically, with this condition… depression often is additional w/ the diagnosis, removal, recovery of this very serious cancer!!
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