Former 'Idol' Luke Has Cancer
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| USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live found this 5/21/2008 on extratv.warnerbros.com [flag] |
Former "American Idol" contestant Luke Menard has cancer, his rep announced today. The 29-year-old singer has Hodgkin lymphoma.
"Luke had a lingering cough and was having trouble breathing deeply, so he went to the doctor to have it checked out," the rep told CBS News. "The suspicion was walking pneumonia. But after a chest x-ray doctors saw a mass and did more testing, which is what led to the stage II Hodgkin diagnosis."
Luke is currently in L.A. but will return home to Indiana soon, adds the ...
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Published 5/21/2008 by Ann Oldenburg at USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live
... Remember Luke Menard from earlier in this American Idol season? The 29-year-old singer has cancer, Extra reports. "Luke had a lingering cough and was having trouble breathing deeply, so he went to the doctor to have it checked out," his rep says. "The suspicion was walking pneumonia. But after a chest x-ray doctors saw a mass and did more testing, which is what led to the stage II Hodgkin diagnosis." Luke, his wife and fmaily are hopeful about beating the illness, one of the most curable forms of cancer, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Menard made it to the ...
