Sharon's Love for Ozzy
- Colon cancer survivor Sharon Osbourn, 68, celebrates the longevity of her relationship with husband Ozzy on his 72nd birthday.
- Through cancer treatment in 2002, Ozzy provided powerful support, like recruiting famous friend, Robin Williams, to come over and cheer her up.
- Sharon treated her colon cancer with chemotherapy; the most widely used treatments for this disease are surgery, chemo, and radiation therapy.
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Ozzy Supported Sharon Through Cancer
Sharon was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2002 and she went through three months of chemotherapy to treat the disease. She has praised Ozzy for the way he supported her through her cancer journey. And who knew the rocker had such a tender side, too? Sharon has said he’s a great listener and joked that he could even be a therapist.
During Sharon’s cancer fight, Ozzy asked the late Robin Williams to pay Sharon a visit to make her laugh. Their daughter, Kelly, 36, said, “Dad said laughter is the best medicine and organized for Robin to come over and make mom laugh, and he just dropped everything and came over to the house and got in bed with Mom.” It’s clear that Ozzy will do anything to cheer Sharon up; it’s no wonder they’ve been together for four decades.
Having a supportive spouse through cancer can go a long way in terms of feeling emotionally and physically supported. For the uncoupled, friends and family members can just as easily fill this role, too.
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Treating Colon Cancer
Colon cancer is most often treated by surgery, chemotherapy (which Sharon used for her treatment, and radiation therapy. Determining a treatment plan will depend on the prognosis and how much the disease has progressed.
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When it comes to treated the disease with surgery, Dr. Heather Yeo, a Colorectal Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, told SurvivorNet in a previous interview, “If you have stage one to three cancer, that usually means that you need surgery. Traditionally, patients usually have open surgery, meaning they had a big incision through their belly and then we would go through that incision in the belly to take out the tumor.”
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Dr. Yeo spoke to newer surgical methods as well. “Now more recently, we’ve been using minimally invasive techniques, meaning making much smaller incisions and long instruments that go through the body wall and then we use a little camera to look inside the body.”
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