Former Planned Parenthood Leader Cecile Richards Reveals Brain Cancer Diagnosis
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Richards, who has continued to work on abortion rights issues since stepping down in 2018, says she is doing well as she undergoes treatment.
Cecile Richards, who boldly led Planned Parenthood through years of political and judicial assaults on the right to abortion, revealed in an interview Sunday that she’s battling brain cancer.
Richards, 66, who was Planned Parenthood’s president from 2006 to 2018, shared details of her diagnosis in a profile in The Cut. For the past six months, she divulged, she’s been undergoing treatment for an incurable glioblastoma, which has a median survival rate of 15 months.
Though the cancer has affected her motor skills, speech and ability to write, she says her doctors have been encouraged by her continued strength.
“I am sleeping. I’m eating. I’m having fun. I’m working. It’s like Pinocchio — I’m a real boy, and that feels really good,” Richards said. “Because six months ago I didn’t know that this was possible.”
For treatment, Richards, the daughter of former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, who died of esophageal cancer in 2006, is undergoing semiweekly infusions as part of a clinical trial.
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