CYBERSPACE — Emmy, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit award nominated actress and late 1970s era beauty icon Farrah Fawcett wants the world to know that she’s alive and active, even as she continues to battle anal cancer.With a positive prognosis in her future, 59-year-old Fawcett is taking it as easy as a busy as a sex goddess undergoing radiation and chemotherapy can. Part of keeping active without extending herself too far includes re-introducing the world to her best-selling 1997 Playboy pictorial via a re-release of her hard-to-find documentary, All of Me.
Available in VHS for $99.99 or DVD for $149.99 from Fawcett’s www.FarrahFawcett.us fan site, All of Me follows the former Charlie’s Angel as she poses for producer Hugh Hefner’s venerable cheesecake publication and reflects, sometimes emotionally, with her friends and family, upon the road that led her there.
In addition to a deliciously nude Fawcett, clothed appearances by her parents, boyfriend Ryan O’Neal, ex-husband Lee Majors, fellow Angels Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson, publisher Hefner and sexual pundit Camille Paglia add depth to the feature.
According to publicist Mike Pingel, “Farrah revisited her archives to offer fans another chance to get this rare film. If nothing else, it proves she’s still active and still working. Her cancer isn’t as dire as the tabloids would have you believe. Her prognosis is 100-percent recovery.”
Debbie Saslow, PhD, director of breast and gynecological cancer at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta says that anal cancer is rarely heard about not due to being taboo, but “because it is such an uncommon type of cancer.” Linked to HPV infections which can cause cervical cancer, anal cancer is currently without a specific diagnostic test. Symptoms can include anal bleeding, itching, and pain, changes in bowel habits, a lump in the anal area, abnormal anal discharges, or swollen lymph nodes in the anal or groin area. Rectal exams can detect cancer early and chances of recovery are excellent for those who undergo surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation. Those at highest risk include transplant recipients, those who are HIV+, women who have had cervical or vulvar cancer, and men who have sex with other men.
