"We Are Cancer Babes"

For Actress, Filmmaker And Cancer Survivor Kris Carr, Her Disease Isn't A Battle; It's An Adventure

(CBS)  Spunky cancer survivor Kris Carr doesn't consider her story a battle. She calls it an adventure.

"One of the things that's very important to me is that we are not victims, we are not 'oh-poor-so-and-so,'" Carr tells CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace. "We are cancer babes."

The former actress became a cancer babe on Valentine's Day 2003. She learned she has an extremely rare form of vascular cancer - one with no treatment and no cure.

"I'll do whatever it takes, whatever it takes," she says in her documentary.

So she became - in her words - a full-time healing junkie, completely revamping her diet and willing to try anything. Anger therapy. Sacred healing mud. Dance therapy.

"Cancer takes away a lot of things, but it doesn't have to take away your spirit or break your soul or take away your glow," Carr says.

She turned her video journal into a documentary and has written a book, "Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips," a hip girlfriend's guide to cancer.

"Crazy, sexy cancer - that totally doesn't go together," Carr says. "We're still these amazing young and wise women, and we just don't want to be defined - I don't want to be defined - by cancer."

At a well-being forum sponsored by fashion designer Donna Karan, Carr gave Karan a copy of her documentary. She's now watched it 14 times.

"It is the kind of movie that's not about cancer, it's about how we live in the lives that we live today," Karan says.

Four years after her diagnosis, Carr says her cancer is completely stable.

"I still live with the tumors, there's dozens of them inside me," she says. "They just sit there."

Along her adventure ride, she discovered the man behind the camera was the man of her dreams.

"It's a blessing," she says.

For Carr, it's not about living happily ever after. It's about living happily with cancer.

[smartie100]

I''ve not seen her movie. I think that it''s awesome she has her cancer stable and looks toward a future. It''s not so easy for many people with cancer however. I watched my Mom die from brain cancer. She had no choice, but to succomb to it''s will though she fought hard. I only hope that I am that strong if and when I have to do battle with this horrible disease.

[hissteps4u]

Most cancers have a 5 to 7 year survival rate and sometimes longer.

In Operable and likely to end her lovely life all she can do is live it one day at a time. Thats all any of us can do.

My Mother died of Cancer which started in the Lungs and Moved to the bone and brain and caused her to go blind in the end it was a horrible thing to watch her deterioration and she was a trooper to the end.

Cancer is insidious and unfortunately medicine only takes a Palative approach in most cases because most cancers can not be treated and cured in reality.

Many Drugs designed for cancers are to either slow the process or for comfort measures and not related to some cure so beware cancer specialist''s hawking their aggressive approaches ask lots of questions.

Sometimes no actions is the best action and it truly depends upon the person and their ability to want to fight for the last breath or to go on their Terms.

[oakishpines]

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[ov442]

im pretty convinced that cancer is caused by pollutants in the air, ground and water we breath touch and drink and animals and plants we eat.
its been goin on for about a century and a half, and so many people have cancer or are related to someone that does, its insane. more kids than ever are getting cancer.

[oakishpines]

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