i have just saw the front pages of todays..( saturday ) national papers & it states doctors are saying jade has only months to live... this is so sad & tragic just hope the new drug she is on will help her a while. she has been quoted as saying she will marry before she dies....
bless her
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2237416.ece

It's just so heartbreaking :-(

Tragic, yes.  And the saddest thing is that she chose not to have suspicious cells burned off because it had happened twice before - so a message to everyone to take care of themselves and not ignore, put off, or avoid doing something that could impact your health. 

Having just lost a family member who was only 45 my heart goes out to Jade, her family and all in similar situations.x

Heart breaking news.........

She's so young it's scary, I always have my regular tests even if it is slightly uncomfortable for a matter of minutes it could save my life.  I feel so sorry for her family & especially her young boys, I do hope some good comes out of this though.  I remember when Kylie was diagnosed with breast cancer the number of woman who had check ups went up dramatically, hopefully the same will happen with smears.  I know people may scorn her for airing her laundry so publicly but even if one extra woman goes for a test she will have achieved something.

My thoughts are with her & her family, I hope her remaining time is as happy as it can be.

It is very, very sad.  More so if Jade was advised to have medical treatment previously :(

Craigles, I'm sorry for your loss - my sincere condolences and prayers for the family.
Teri x

I'm not a Jade Goody fan, but my eyes filled up with tears when I heard that on the radio earlier, so terribly, terribly sad.

I wish that she wasn't marrying Jack though, I guess she wants the big white wedding, it's many girls big dream, guess I can't blame her for that but she needs her home and all her finances to go to her children, I may be cynical but I can't see Jack wanting to walk away from this without something, I might be wrong, I hope that I'm wrong, but he was never faithful to her before and once she's gone it won't take him long to be off with someone else with whatever he has of Jade's, I know some may think it terrible of me to say that but I just think the boys a chancer, she's in no situation to be thinking clearly.

Her ex and father to her children has made his own money and his own 'celebrity' status, he appears to be a very good dad and will take good care of his children. I hope that her advisors will appeal to her to do a very detailed pre-nup.

It's very sad my thoughts will be with her, poor girl and her poor boys.

her poor boys

I hope that they go and live with their Father and not her Mother. :(

I haven't been reading every article on Jade as it is so heart wrenching. I do admire her, yes she has made mistakes, some huge! But haven't we all. I feel so very very bad for her. I look at my children and hope I see them into thier adult years and it makes my eyes fill with tears at the thought of poor Jade having to leave her children to live on without her for all of their childhoods. For me anyone looking after my children is secondary to me,I know I do it the best and I would be devastated at having to leave them to anyone else. Poor, poor Jade and Poor,Poor Bobby and Freddie. :(

> Her ex and father to her children has made his own money and his own 'celebrity' status, he appears to be a very good dad and will take good care of his children. I hope that her advisors will appeal to her to do a very detailed pre-nup.

Ditto Carrington :(  She's always struck me as someone very vulnerable to manipulation (agreed, with her own failings on top - much down to a combination of her youth and poor upbringing I feel) and in the awful state of mind she must currently be in I hope someone who has her best interests and those of her children to the forefront is on hand to support and advise her wisely.

God bless them.  I wouldn't wish this on anyone.

>I guess she wants the big white wedding, it's many girls big dream, guess I can't blame her for that but she needs her home and all her finances to go to her children.

According to the reports this morning, she will make a lot of money from her wedding with a magazine deal to leave in trust for her children.

> According to the reports this morning, she will make a lot of money from her wedding with a magazine deal to leave in trust for her children.

I also think she is not oblivious to Jacks shortcomings, although I do think he genuinely loves her, and I would be surprised if the bulk of her wealth is not left in trust to the boys.
Bless her. I hope the rest of her days are passed in peace concious that she has been a very loving mother and surrounded by all those that love her.

ive never been a fan of her BUT i too had tears in my eyes when i heard the news this morning, its so so sad, let her do whatever she feels the right thing eg.. get married and do as much as she can, it makes me feel so lucky to have good health, i to must book up that appointment that keeps getting cancelled or forgotten, days, weeks and months seen to pass so quickly but i have a reminder to make that call first thing monday morning,,

I felt really sad for her too, i thought Jack was the lovely cheeky chappy who fathered the boys, what was his name then?

think his name is geoff

Jeff brazier

He was on ship wrecked a good few yrs a go and does some presenting

Thoughts are with Jade and her boys

Carrington totally agree with you!!  He won't be around after she's died, he'll run away from the boys as fast as his feet will carry him I'm sure.  Jeff seems to have a fairly good head on his shoulders so let's hope he'll be there for his boys as they'll definitely need him.

Jade has raised so much awareness about cervical cancer, a lot of people have downed her and slagged her off for the publicity she has received for her cancer. I can only stand up and applaud this wonderful, beautiful 27 year old who has, across the county made all women unite and vow to have regular screenings for cervical cancer, I only hope that all young women and parents alike will have and allow their daughters to have the vaccine that will go along way in prevention of this awful, evil disease. I think Jade is savvy enough to do the best for the boys care and as all her earnings and assets will be in a trust they will not be abused. God love you Jade, you will be remembered for your wit and laughter even in your darkest times and your gutsy battle. If I type any more I will cry.

Sandra
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I feel so sorry for the boys. she is doing a lot of interviews and that for the money for her kids but don't any of you think she should be spending this time with her children now as she won't be here for long and I am sure the kids would rather spend time with mummy than have money after she has one.

Linda

Apparently she made a Will while in hospital - if she gets married i hope she makes another , as i believe marriage wipes out a will made before it ?  I am sure someone will know !
I just hope her boys get what she wants them to get .

> She's always struck me as someone very vulnerable to manipulation (agreed, with her own failings on top - much down to a combination of her youth and poor upbringing I feel) and in the awful state of mind she must currently be in I hope someone who has her best interests and those of her children to the forefront is on hand to support and advise her wisely.
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I've not been a fan of hers but she does strike me as a Marylin Munro type girl, with her hedonistic lifestyle and her easily abused nature, I hope for her childrens sake that there is somebody in the family unit that will have the childrens interests at heart and not their money making ability. Sadly such is celebrity I doubt it.

I cross my fingers for her.

I had a little cry this morning when i read her interview. I understand that all the media work she is doing is so she leaves money for her kids, but i think she deserves some provacy with her children and family. It broke my heart when i read shes worked out how much money she needs to earn to enable her kids to have private education til the age of 18. What a thing for a mother to do.
To the person who commented about her mum, it seems as though her mum is a changed person. She may not have been a great mum but she has certainly made amends and changed since then. She is a great Nan and has supported Jade a lot, you can see that whenever they are together.
I wonder if Jack will be involved with the boys after Jade's gone. The childrens biological father - Jeff Brazier is never really mentioned much.

her mum is a changed person.

Did you not hear Max Clifford say last week that she had started a dreadful row with Jack at Jade's bedside when she was coming round from her operation?  And Jade, in her drowsy state, was trying to calm things down?  He described her as a volatile person with a short fuse!  Not the sort of influence that I would want around my young children. :( Very sad.

Maybe Jade spending time raising money for her boys is her way of coping. She has no control of her illness but this she has. Good luck to her.

i just hope the boys are kept out of the limelight and are allowed to have a proper childhood. It will be hard enough for then loosing their mum without having a camera shoved in their face constantly. They are young enough to adapt to a new life.

I hope to that they dont keep hearing how Jade on her deathbed worked to earn them money so they better do well.

I think this is so sad. The girl has not had a chance really a poor family background and this. She is very endearing in a way as well, you sort of wished she would make a good life for herself and her children. The report is that she did not return for follow up smears after an abnormal one.
The pity is I had the same problem when I was in my 30's did go back and opted for a hystorectomy before my 40th. Im 53 now. My fear was for my sons who were 8 & 10. Now the poor girl must make as much cash as she can for the boys. I hope whatever she makes will ensure their life is better than her's but Im not sure that boyfriend of her's is the right one or Jeff Brazier their Dad.
A brave girl and I hope she passes easily and not in much pain, even more that she will recover but I fear its all to late now. Im not sure televising her demise would be good for her children. Its not something I would like trotted out on tv that should not be their last memory of her.

No it doesnt now a days you can leave a trust for your kids its only when there is no will everything automatically passed to the spose. Also he'll make a packet on his sad life with Jade when she has gone, I bet he'll sell it all before the funneral - the snake.
I hope the boys do get a good education and aren't always living in her shadow a bit of privacy when they are growing up would do them a lot of good.

I've never been a big Jade fan but this is so sad, I feel so sorry for her and for her boys. She's very brave and I hope she enjoys the rest of her life...must be so scary to know you only have months to live, I can't imagine how terrible it must feel. I hope that she makes a good pre-nup before she marries Jack - I have a bad feeling about him...

I've never had a like or dislike for Jade, but no-one deserves their life to end like this.  It is an absolute tragedy.  She may not be the brightest crayon in the box, but I do think she's a good mother and it's heartbreaking to think that a few weeks down the line (which is apparantly what the doctors are saying now) they'll be without her.

I wish her all the very best and hope that the remainder of her time is peaceful and pain free.  I hope her boys grow up to know what a courageous person their mother was and that she loved them and did the very best she could for them.

I feel so desparately sorry for Jade and her family....but also for Jack. Whatever he has done in the past he has chosen to stand by Jade throughout her illness. That can't be an easy task for any young man and I don't think we should underestimate him. He could have walked away right at the beginning and still sold his story but he has chosen to stay. According to the papers he has spent his time comforting Jade and trying to do the best he can in the time left. I can't imagine how heartbreaking it is for him to watch Jade prepare to die - and I'm not sure he could do it if he didn't love her. It would have been so easy to walk away and go straight to the papers. 

I don't think Jack is a bad lot either.  Young perhaps but he seems genuinely to care.  I also think the boys father seems a decent bloke.  As I understand it he has always been involved with the children and they have been staying with him full time whilst she has been in hospital.  I would imagine their care will fall to him both legally and naturally but I hope he allows continuing contact with Jack for as long as they wish it.

I cant agree with Jack not being a "Bad lot"...anyone that attacks a child (or anyone else for that matter) with a golf club is not a good sort and i wouldn't want any children of mine left in the care of someone with such an obvious temper for one minute.

hopefully with what jade has been through it will prompt more women to go for a smear. im now 30 and havent had one since i was 18 as it was a traumatic experience for me but i am seriously thinking i need to make an appointment now.

Make one I was checked had a problem went back had a hystorectomy and that was in 1995 my sons were 8 & 10. Now they are adult and I still have a vault smear every two years just in case. Its about 5 mins discomfort, its not nice but the fact that you are then clear is worth a lifetimes regret.

Echo Whistler's comments. I go every 3 years without fail & have done since I was 21, I agree it isn't pleasant but it could save your life.

I've never missed one, go every 3 years as well.
I know of friends who find it uncomfortable/embarressing so won't go and have it done again - really think that your life is worth more than going through 5 mins of that every 3 years.

I personally think that we should all have at the same time tests for breast cancer as well. It can hit those at a young age also and think that prevention is always better than cure(or an attempt to)

Watched the interview with Max Clifford on This morning today. He mentioned a very good point, the legacy Jade leaves behind is that she will probably save lots of womens lives by promting them to go for their smears. Lets hope some good comes of it.

If you are at risk then your Doctor can arrange a breast check annually, plus you can visit a well women clinic and have a nurse check, none of it is nice but who knows apart from you and your Dr.

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I think that I have read somewhere that a mammogram can give false readings on younger women as the breast tissue is so dense, hence the over 50 rule.

> I think that I have read somewhere that a mammogram can give false readings on younger women as the breast tissue is so dense, hence the over 50 rule.

I am at high risk of breast cancer with my mum and my maternal auntie both diagnosed with the disease, as well as several cousins and other distant relatives.  I have an open appointment with my breast screening unit following a scare a couple of years ago.  At the time I was 34 and advised that I was too young to have a mammogram because of the false readings so I had to have ultrasound scans.  Apparently the minimum age (albeit for my NHS trust area) was 35 but even then the results wouldnt always be correct so would still have to have the scans.  They recommended me to have mammograms from the age of 40 as both my mum and auntie were 46 and 50 respectively when diagnosed.

However I am now with a different trust having moved last year and following my smear test last week I was advised that I am not high risk for breast cancer as far as they are concerned and so would only receive a mammogram as routine from the age of 50!  This is being looked into but I am due to move again in a few months to yet another trust area so will have to wait and see.

The best advice I can give anyone is go and see your doctor or nurse.  I gladly go through a few short minutes of discomfort knowing that it could save my life.

I know that if you have not been sexually active that doctors do not do smears or should I say don't recommend them.  I wonder what the risk factor is for this though?

It describes it here as very low.

Saw today a website which is against Jade and its awfull

I am not going to issue it on here

My thoughts are with Jade and her boys

I am going to email the papers to see if they can do some thing about website

It is humanley wrong

> I am going to email the papers to see if they can do some thing about website
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I would not bother.  I doubt that can do anything to remove it and they do not deserve any publicity nor would I give the tabloids something to ooh aaah about with false concern.

Change my mind...told some one more appropraite

I stared my tests at about 30ish when Mum & her sister were diagnosed. Some when in 1960's someone had thought to put a tissue sample of my maternal grandmother's breast cancer on file. So luckily I went up to the top of the "check list". I have also completed 5 years of drug testing with tomoxifen, on 23rd Im off to start 5 years on another drug. So I have a bone scan, bloods, weight (OOPS) and something else at Soton General.  My boys are on the check as well because its a man problem as well as a female problem.

You know I am checking all the news on Jade and its so sad, 27 and life is finished? I cannt begin to imagine her grief and fright with two small boys and a less than functional family. I hope she has a strong will and someone to entrust those children to that they will not just seek "fame" as a future. Is it me or was she the first to become "Famous" for being so dumb, so open and so (basically uneducated!). Yet I feel for her so much, strange as Im not a softy at all really, but I really hoped she would make it.

Cancer is really scarey and I could not sleep in between my diagnoses and op. Im a lucky one I wish she had been as well.

Thats terrible did they do a family history with you? They did with me, mind you Im in Hampshire and hevent moved I was def. in my 30's when I strated mammograms Im 53 now so Ive been squashed for years.

It may be worth (if you are game) contacting IBIS+11 who do the tests and can advise what should happen to people like us at risk but now willing to cut the offending bits off! Its on the goggle site Ive just peaked, you stand a 50% chance of a plasebo medicine and you visit your local hospital 6 monthly. You dont get any expenses but i got a pin at the end!!! For another 5 years I know Im in good hands and I can forget that.

I lost Mum at 69 4 years, Nan was 63, yet her sister is about 82 now and she's still fine minus 1 breast.

quote[Is it me or was she the first to become "Famous" for being so dumb, so open and so (basically uneducated!). Yet I feel for her so much, strange as Im not a softy at all really, but I really hoped she would make it.]quote

Yes, I think Jade definitely belongs in the 'famous for being famous' camp, and I usually find that group to be fairly untalented, shallow and annoying, but  there's something about Jade that I like, from her being in her first BB up to now - she has a certain frankness & honesty about her that seems to be missing from many other 'celebs'. She is very unguarded in interviews and comes across as a down to earth person. Maybe not the best educated, but by no means stupid, after all, shes made millions in the past few years from her 'brand'.

I really feel for her & her family.

Claire

she may not be the most intelligent person ever, but with regards to making an impact on women she will save many many lives by prompting women to be checked up. as i said in a previous post i have not been in 12 years but i will be going tomorrow lunch.

Yes I agree some of her comments are so tactless but I feel she means well. A product of bad parenting she had to "care" for her mother from an early age and just didnt have a chance.
Her comments re the Indian Lady wasnt racist I felt but ignorant that she was offending? I really wanted her to get a cure and make a better life for the two boys. So very very sad. I cant remember anyone else who won BB just Jade for being outrageous and (as I said) endearing in some way. Hope she has a lovely wedding day and passes easily but I fear it will not be that easy with cancer it seldom is.