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HOME Local News Business Opinions High School Sports College Sports Pro Sports Sport Columnists Oakland Lifestyles CLASSIFIEDS ARCHIVES Home 'Love cannot just stop' Saturday, February 11, 2006 E-mail Print 'Love cannot just stop'Web-posted Feb 11, 2006By JERRY WOLFFE Of The Oakland Press BLOOMFIELD HILLS - Mirella Panozzo vividly recalls the last few years of her husband's life.

              Advertisement               She remembers sadly how Carl's 6-foot, 175-pound frame dwindled to just skin and bones and how cancer took his right lung and left him in excruciating pain just before his death Aug.

25, 2003.

He died at age 62, three years after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma.

But the Bloomfield Hills woman says one thing never changed, even after his death.

"Love cannot just stop," she says.

"I remember, at the very beginning, someone told us there are many cases when cancer hits someone in the family - a husband or wife - there's a divorce because it's too much and one of them can't take it.

With us, it was different.

"We got closer." So, to honor her husband of 25 years this Valentine's Day, she's trying to make the public more aware of the cancer that claimed his life.

She said she's trying to raise mo...

... The Globe and Mail: Drugs for cancer easy to get in B.C.

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Report card finds patients in Ontario, PEI have poorest access to new medications By LISA PRIEST Wednesday, February 1, 2006 Page A8 Access to cancer drugs varies dramatically by province, with British Columbia providing the quickest access to the most medications, according to a report card on the cancer system.That contrasts with Ontario, where cumbersome review processes have made obtaining some of the newer cancer drugs a "nightmare," Kong Khoo, a Kelowna-based medical oncologist, told a packed news conference in Toronto yesterday.

"There's a huge amount of paperwork and difficulty accessing these drugs," Dr.

Khoo said in releasing the Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada annual report card.

The coalition's review found that of the 24 cancer drugs studied, all of which represented key advances, B.C.

covers the cost of providing 21 of them.

In Ontario, only six such drugs had approved funding and Prince Edward Island was the lowest of any province with only four fully funded drugs.

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