At the age of 62, former sexy “Charlie’s Angels” Farrah Fawcett died on June 25, 2009, the same day that Michael Jackson died, after she was diagnosed with anal cancer three years ago, leaving partner Ryan O’Neal and their 24 year old son Redmond.
Fawcett became an icon in the 1970’s for her swimsuit posters. On-screen, among her notable works include The Cannonball Run, The Burning Bed, Small Sacrifices, Extremities, and The Apostle.
In 2006 when she was first diagnosed with anal cancer, Fawcett started her battle and got into radiation and chemotherapy, but in May 2007 not long after her treatment, scans revealed that her cancer was back and has progressed to stage IV cancer and has started spreading to her liver as well.
This angel is not the one to bow down easily and bravely underwent series of cancer treatments and procedure in Germany for six times which included chemotherapy, surgery to remove the original anal cancer, and laser treatments of the tumors in her liver.
Early 2008, though doctors stressed that she wasn’t cancer free, Fawcett was filled with optimism when scans showed that her tumors were no longer active and each of the known sites of tumor in her liver had all been treated.
Sadly, the cancer made big comeback in the spring of 2008 when test results revealed new tumors in Fawcett’s liver and they found a re-growth of her original anal tumor.
Fawcett opted for alternative treatments in the US when she entered clinical trial of an experimental drug in summer of 2008, which unfortunately was not successful, revealing that her tumor was progressing. Simultaneously she switched to other chemotherapy drugs, which to her dismay made her hair fall out – something Fawcett has been trying to prevent from her early cancer treatment.
April 2009 this year, after her sixth trip to Germany for more intensive treatments and surgical procedures, Fawcett was admitted to the hospital for blood clotting.
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