Noreen Fraser, Who Led a Public Fight Against Cancer, Dies at 63
She was not on the list.
Noreen Fraser, a television producer who used her broadcasting skills to raise money and public awareness in a national campaign against breast cancer, died on Monday at her home in Brentwood, Calif., more than 15 years after she learned she had the disease. She was 63.
Her death, caused by the cancer, was confirmed by her publicist, Jennifer Styles.
Ms. Fraser was a founder and producer of “Stand Up to Cancer,” a telethon for women’s cancer research. She sought to coordinate competing experiments and treatment programs; started a Men for Women Now campaign to alert women to early detection and prevention; and established a foundation to fund research into all tumors that are unique to women.
The foundation evolved into the Noreen Fraser Fund for Women’s Cancer Research at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of California, Los Angeles.
“I have made cancer my business,” Ms. Fraser said.
Ms. Fraser was a producer of “Entertainment Tonight,” ABC’s “Home Show” and “The Richard Simmons Show.” She received her breast cancer diagnosis in 2001; within two years it had metastasized into her bones and liver. While being treated she survived with Stage 4 cancer for more than 16 years.
“She didn’t know if she’d see her children graduate from grade school, then high school, then college,” her husband, the TV producer Woody Fraser, told The Los Angeles Times. “She did, but not her daughter’s upcoming wedding.”
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