Jade Goody - prognosis is poor. I feel sad about this.

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I am not a big fan or anything, and I don't feel more sorry for celebrities than for anyone else, but it all seems such a terrible waste. Hope for a miracle, as thats what it will take now, apparently.

Very sad. There's clearly been something wrong for some time and it makes me wonder if doctors would have sat up and listened to someone else in a way that they may not have listened to her. There's that horrible statistic that the higher your socioeconomic group, the greater the amount of time you command in a medical appointment...

PS: I wonder how many lives her high profile suffering will save through smear tests that would otherwise have been unattended

This is very sad and although I've never been a fan of Jade I feel desparately sorry for her and wish her all the best. Almost ten years ago one of my colleagues died from cervical cancer weeks before her 21st birthday.

She had suffered from irregular bleeding and pain but her GP - older and male - kept saying that he couldn't do a smear or any tests until the bleeding had stopped and kept sending her away. By the time she managed to get someone to take her seriously it was too late. I think her youth, trusting nature in doctor knows best and the attitude of her Mum played a part in her not pushing the issue despite us older wiser (if we actually were) ladies raising our concerns.

I remember her saying long before she started to have problems that her mother would never go for smears or mammograms because 'she didn't want to know.' That has still got to be eating away at her and I wouldn't wish that on anybody

Such a waste of a young, lovely girl and I wish to God that we had marched her to the local hospital ourselves en masse and had forced somebody to do something. I still feel guilty about it. RIP G x.

shhh I watched her last show, it was the one when she lost her hair. I think the next one is next week, Thurs probably.
very sad

They have told her there is no further treatment and they are just going to help her with pain and make her comfortable over the next few weeks

Really bad news:

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2237416.ece

Can't stop thinking of Jade and her boys

This news is just utterly heart breaking i can not believe someone so young with so much going for her and 2 beautiful children who depend on her is going to lose her life, devastating much love to jade and her boys and family xx

do you think she has been let down by the doctors?, i mention this because i do remember, years ago, after big brother, she went on another reality show called 'back to reality' anyone remember it?

according to wiki, this was in 2004. while she was on the programme, she was taken to hospital one night with severe abdominal pains/unusual bleeding (this is mentioned in the wiki entry), signs back then all was not good.

I remember that Lucykate, bit i think the outcome of that was she found out she was pregnant with freddie, i also think not only was she pregnant but there was something else going on that they never picked up on, i think she has been let down and where this was not picked up she is now paying an almighty price, well her life. Tragic

This is so sad.

Oh god, I'd not seen the latest news, it is awful.

a real tragedy. the worst thing is, it was potentially preventable

lucykate, i remember the collapse with stomahc pains..

was wondering if being pregnant accelerated the cancerous changes in her cervix etc. esp as she had two children so close together?

whatever happened, or did not happen, this is a most awful , awful tragedy

i hope she is made comfortable and able to die with dignity, at peace, with her family around her when the time comes

It is terrible for such a young person to have to suffer in this way, knowing that she will leave behind two small children.

I have never been a fan of hers but simple humanity means that anyone would feel sad at her prognosis. Poor woman.

I feel really sorry for her and her children, heartbreaking

i may be being a bit naive here, but i just don't understand how a young woman, who has repeatedly been seen at hospital with abdominal pains, unusual bleeding etc, who has also been pregnant twice so gone through all the scanning and blood test processes involved, has managed to have such advanced cancer which has gone largely undiagnosed. i know that there have been stories in the press saying she avoided abnormal smear results, but it can't have been made clear enough to her at the time how serious it was.

sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........

Does anyone else feel extremly sad..? I feel abnormal as jade has really affected me. Of course, I didn't know her but I did have something in me that liked her and wanted to watch and read up on her iykwim....
Similar age, 2 young dk's and like her im also very into "beauty" (hair,nails,make up etc) and I guess I did look to her..

I just feel so sad..

I read the NOTW yesterday and cried, dh hugged me understanding how I felt but I just feel silly iykimw. Like "who am I to be upset when its not even someone close to me"
I have just read the sun today and had to stop...she is "reality" I guess of what happens in life but it doesn't seem right. How can she be dying when she looked only months ago glamerous, happy, content and so healthy..

I guess I will prob be told to get real but atm I can't, I just feel consumed by her and her life...

paddington,yes thought that was the last one..and according to living tv next one is thurs.

Lucykate, she had been going numerous times to her local hospital for tests only to be told all was ok.
Apparently it was Max clifford who last yr told her to go to his doctor. She did so and was then admitted to the royal marsden for tests. This is who found the problems...

It has affected me , especially with her having 2 young children

Just feel so sorry for them all

I just find it so worrying that some one can have smears done, collapse ill, go to hospital, have bleeding etc etc

and nothing was ever found till now

I find that really scary

...so so sad