What Killed Dana Reeve?
By The Age (News site from Australia) Did years of singing in smoky nightclubs kill Dana Reeve, the widow of paralysed Superman actor Christopher Reeve? She died yesterday of lung cancer even though she was not a smoker. “Ten to 15 per cent of people who develop lung cancer are thought to be non-smokers. It was said that she had, in the course of being an entertainer, spent a lot of time in pubs, in nightclubs, in which there is a lot of cigarette smoke,” said Dr James Mulshine from Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago. Reeve, 44, won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her husband through his decade of near total paralysis. He died 15 months ago and late last year she appeared at a gala for the Christopher Reeve Foundation and appeared to be responding well to treatment. In the US more women die of lung cancer than breast cancer, and one in five American women diagnosed with the disease have never lit a cigarette. “We know that 90 per cent of lung cancer is linked to direct
