Lisa Ray diagnosed with cancer

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I’ll beat cancer: Lisa Ray
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Lisa, who has acted in Vikram Bhatt's Kasoor and Deepa Mehta's Water travels to and fro between India and Cannada for work. Her latest film, I Can't Think Straight where she plays a lesbian is releasing on September 11.

Writing further about her cancer, Lisa said, "Myeloma is incurable. It's a relatively rare cancer of the bone marrow that affects about 6000 Canadians. Every year, approximately 2100 more cases are diagnosed. I'm a junior member in many ways, having been diagnosed at 37, while the average age is 65. Makes the disease not quite as 'sexy' as other cancers. But we can change that."

She concluded by stating, "In the industry I'm in, you could say, its motive alone that gives character to your acting. So today with Velcade and, Revlimid and other promising new treatments in the pipeline our survival rates are improving. But only with an ever expanding toolbox of treatments and awareness can this cancer be beaten. So I'm going to do everything I can to wrench the spotlight onto Myeloma and cancer awareness. I believe it can be cured. That's the Dirty Realist in me."she wrote.

She adds, “Do I go? Do I deal with the current red carpet obsession with pursuing the ‘of the moment’ perfection? I have after all, set myself up in this world. ... I don’t want to hide. I want to celebrate. In my wetsuit.” Go for it, Lisa... celebrate, and beat the cancer!

Lisa was born to a Bengali father and a Polish mother. She joined showbiz as a model and later ventured into films with Tamil movie 'Nethaji'. After that she was seen in Vikram Bhatt's 'Kasoor' in 2001, but stayed away from mainstream Hindi films as she could not speak the language fluently.


In 2002, internationally renowned filmmaker Deepa Mehta cast her opposite Rahul Khanna in the crossover film 'Bollywood Hollywood'. The Canada-based director later repeated Lisa in her Oscar-nominated period drama 'Water' (2005), in which she impressed critics with her performance as a young widow.

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I think her first album & frm where she comes to know to the whole world was the album afreen afreen.....
watever my fav , hope she get cure soon and we will see her back on screen
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