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Gwyneth Paltrow's diamond cause
Feb 16, 2007, 13:30 GMT
Gwyneth Paltrow braved icy weather despite a bad cold to host a charity diamond auction on Thursday (15.02.07).
The 34-year-old actress refused to let her illness deter her from attending the event at New York's St. Regis hotel.
The charity auction was raising money for the city's first Hope Lodge, which will provide free housing for adult cancer patients during their treatment.
She told USA Today newspaper: "It's for a really good cause. This has been planned for a long time, so I couldn't take a sick day today."
Gwyneth's father Bruce died in 2002 after losing his battle to throat cancer.
She added: "My life has been affected by cancer in so many different ways. When my father had cancer, he found it so isolating. It's very difficult to empathise with it if you haven't gone through it."
The Oscar-winning star - who is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin - also confessed she was excited about going back to work after spending the last two years raising Apple, two, and Moses, 10 months.
She is currently filming 'The Good Night', her brother Jake's directorial debut, and is also set to star in 'Iron Man' alongside Robert Downey Jr.
She added: "I haven't done a real part in a long time. I'm going back to work now.
"When I had kids, I just wanted to be with them. But doing one movie a year makes you more interesting as a person and wife and mother."
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RhondaFeb 21st, 2007 - 22:41:16
As someone who is currently battling oral cancer, the same disease that took Gwyneth's father I have a perspective slightly different from those attending this fund raising event. While I commend the lady for doing something good, this specific disease gets little notice, and no one seems to talk about it very much. ZI never even heard of it before I was diagnosed with it. I found out that if I had been getting screened for this by my dentist or general MD regularly, that they could have caught it at an early level when my chances of survival would have been better. We do not have a national policy for screening for oral cancer in the US like we have for many others, and this is just wrong. It would be really something if she would put her power to work in a very overlooked disease area where so much can be done for so little. Oral cancer survival rates would go up quickly if people were just diagnosed early. Someone with the degree of visibility could really shine a light on something that is killing so many. My disease needs a champion like Katie Couric is for colon cancer. Ms. Paltrow could effect change in the world of oral cancer through her celebrity.
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