Dana Reeves Bio.

My name is Dana Reeves; I was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and grew up in the town of Green burgh, New York. I graduated from Edgemont High School, and graduated cum lade in English Literature from Middlebury college in Vermont. I became a singer and an actress and I was on several talk shows On August 9, 2005 I was diagnosed with lung disease, although I never smoked cigarettes. I passed away on March 6, 2006, eleven days before my 45^th birthday, due to the disease. Lung Disease is a disease that affects the lungs, the organs that allow humans to breathe. The disease makes patients have a lifestyle change, and includes a healthy diet, body cleansing, exercises and different traditional and natural therapies. Breathing problems from lung disease can prevent the body from getting enough oxygen. Examples of lung disease are asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, influenza, pneumonia, lunch cancer, sarcoidosis and pulmonary fibrosis. Some symptoms of lung disease are trouble breathing, shortness of breath, feel like you’re not getting enough air, decreased ability to exercise, cough that will not go away, coughing up blood or mucus and pain while breathing in or out. People with lung disease have a 9 year survival rate of about 30 percent. Some lung diseases have cures available and others do not. Diseases like pneumonia are the easiest to treat. Diseases caused by years of abuse to the lungs like emphysema still await a cure. Some of the lung diseases do not have cures; there are ways to improve the lung but no cure. 

Since I have been diagnosed with lung disease in 2005, I have done a lot of research on the disease. Stem cells can help lung disease but they cannot fully cure it. Since stem cells can help the disease and many other illnesses we should really continue stem cell research because it has already helped many people out. Stem cell research does have more advantages than disadvantages, there are many chances it can cure people so we need to continue stem cell research to find these ways.              

DANA REEVES