Talk:Susan Strasberg

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BetacommandBot 04:33, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Monroe, writing

The discussion of Marilyn Monroe's estate, though interesting, seems rather tangential. I would rather see more information about Susan Strasberg herself.

The English throughout the article is dreadful (see especially the section "Death"). Would someone please fix this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Forstag (talk • contribs) 00:19, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

I've done a quick but thorough cleanup. Gwen Gale (talk) 03:07, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Could use a stronger description of her death: the body says "result of cancer" but the infobox says "thrombosis"; while a thrombosis is conceivably a result of cancer or cancer treatment, it reads like a contradiction. This should be tweaked, unless it really is a contradiction, and then one of the two should be removed. Also, more detail about her disinheritance is probably required, that passage is vague. If it's worth mentioning, then there is a story behind it. If it was an amicable arrangement because Lee felt his children were well-off and his new wife needed it more, than it's probably not worth mentioning. If it was due to a falling out, then that should be described. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 02:33, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Distractingly written, "...she wrote about her tumultuous relationships with her parents, actors Richard Burton and Christopher Jones..." Grammatically, that makes those two men her parents.--cregil (talk) 14:22, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

breast cancer stage 4?

I quote: 'In the mid 1990s, Strasberg was diagnosed with breast cancer stage 4 of which she was cured by Nikolai Levashov.'

Okay, I quibble about whether this is accurate, for a few reasons. First, maybe I'm skeptical of alternative medicine. To put it rather lightly. But secondly, what is this about 'breast cancer stage 4'? Technically, stage 3 cancer means the breast cancer has extended to beyond the immediate region of the tumor and may have invaded nearby lymph nodes and muscles, but has not spread to distant organs. And more specifically, stage 3B breast cancer will have invaded the chest wall or breast skin with evidence of swelling, inflammation, or ulcers. Beyond that, there is stage 3C breast cancer. And then, stage 4 breast cancer means that the cancer has spread to other areas of the body, such as the brain, bones, lung and liver. Now I think that in Susan Strasberg's case, we're not talking about “mets,” and again we cannot be talking about stage 4 breast cancer that’s metastasized, or traveled, through the bloodstream to create tumors in the liver, lungs, brain, bones and/or other parts of the body. This is incurable, and annually, the disease takes 40,000 lives. So okay, whatever might be the putative quality of the source for this info, I am confident that Susan Strasberg didn't have this issue. Simply, because it's very unlikely. How pretentious a notion are we delivering, here? Wiki says that somebody had stage 4 breast cancer and got cured by a quack? Even if she got cured by a quack, this was probably not stage 4 breast cancer that she was cured of. I'd double-check the quality of your source for that info. And then, let me return to the first point, that I'm skeptical of alternative medicine -- there are abuses in alternative medicine that need to be addressed. Maybe wiki isn't the place for addressing them, but it actually occurs to me that I'm cynical about what is reported here as the cause of death. I have found this link:

http://www.playbill.com/article/actress-susan-strasberg-daughter-of-lee-strasberg-dead-at-60-com-79624

Note: 'Original Broadway Anne Frank and daughter of famed Method-master Lee Strasberg, Susan Strasberg died at age 60 on Jan. 20, 1999, from cancer.'

Another link:

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/23/arts/susan-strasberg-60-actress-lauded-in-anne-frank-dies.html

Note: '..died on Thursday at her home in Manhattan..The cause was cancer, said her stepmother, Anna Strasberg.'

I don't insist on there being only one way to connect the dots, here, but one might sum this up as being that Susan Strasberg apparently was a misguided "innocent" bilked by a charlatan, or, in other words, this fellow Levashov began work with her, and of course, we agree that without any traditional treatment, Susan should have been dead, and, come to think of it, she is quite dead. DanLanglois (talk) 07:18, 17 October 2017 (UTC)