She had the BRCA gene.

It is very scary and upsetting that this cancer was caught at stage 2, she had aggressive treatment, access to best doctors in nyc etc, and it still killed her within 5 yrs of diagnosis. And young, too. Awful.

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Anonymous wrote:The story of her wedding in 2015 sounds really lovely. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/style/elizabeth-wurtzel-finds-someone-to-love-her.html

Though I find it disturbing her initial diagnosis was only stage 2 breast cancer. That's a fairly early stage for diagnosis, to have it turn out to be terminal in the end.

You know that 5-year-survival for even stage 2 is less than 100%? Hers must have been an aggressive disease.

Her cancer spread to the spinal fluid, so you’re pretty much done at that point.

She seemed so much more manic depressive than depressed. Sadly Cristina Ricci portrayed her in the movie Prozac Nation and although she was a sweet child actor she is just screechy in her adult roles. So the movie is unwatchable. Ricci desperately needs voice training. She’s mangled wurtzel, Borden, and Zelda.

She pursued an aggressive treatment, too. scary.

Anonymous wrote:The story of her wedding in 2015 sounds really lovely. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/style/elizabeth-wurtzel-finds-someone-to-love-her.html

Though I find it disturbing her initial diagnosis was only stage 2 breast cancer. That's a fairly early stage for diagnosis, to have it turn out to be terminal in the end.

You know that 5-year-survival for even stage 2 is less than 100%? Hers must have been an aggressive disease.

I went to law school with her and knew her (not well). She was a fascinating figure and an incredible writer. RIP.

Well that's terrible. I just looked at her Instagram and she was positing in October and looked normal.

Anonymous wrote:So sad. I remember when Prozac Nation was first released. That book was all anyone talked about for months.

Talented woman gone much too soon. F cancer.

+100

So sad. I remember when Prozac Nation was first released. That book was all anyone talked about for months.

Talented woman gone much too soon. F cancer.

The story of her wedding in 2015 sounds really lovely. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/style/elizabeth-wurtzel-finds-someone-to-love-her.html

Though I find it disturbing her initial diagnosis was only stage 2 breast cancer. That's a fairly early stage for diagnosis, to have it turn out to be terminal in the end.

Way too young and to a disease that must be cured. Sad news.

I hadn’t kept up with her life and writing and (wrongly) assumed she had died due to an overdose or suicide or the like. Metastatic breast cancer. Wow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/books/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html

Very sad. She had a great voice and spirit.

I was just wikipedia-ing her-

In early 2013 Wurtzel published a New York Magazine article lamenting the unconventional choices she had made in life, including heroin use and spending much of a lucrative publisher advance on a costly Birkin bag, and her failure to marry, form a family, buy a house, save money or invest for retirement. "At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24," she wrote.[17]

God I loved that book. So sad.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/elizabeth-wurtzel-prozac-nation-author-who-spurred-a-memoir-boom-dies-at-52/2020/01/07/fc1a040e-2fcf-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html