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Michigan Musician Loses Battle with Adrenal Cancer
What You Need To Know About This Deadly Disease
-WDIV Channel 4
Spencer Bell of Bloomfield Hills was just 20 years old when he was diagnosed with adrenal cancer in November of 2006. He died just... |
The band plays on
-Marney Rich Keenan, Detroit News
Rare cancer took the life of Spencer Bell, but family and friends won't let the young Renaissance man be forgotten. On Thanksgiving Day...
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U-M works against rare, lethal cancer
-Marney Rich Keenan, Detroit News
Adrenal cancer is extremely rare - about 200 Americans are diagnosed with the disease each year. It is also extremely deadly, with nearly no... |
Musician lives through songbook
-Brian McCollum, Free Press
Before his abrupt death in December at age 20, the gregarious Bloomfield Hills native was teeming with creative blessings. A musician with a magnetic personality and an ear for sonic adventure, a writer with a precocious literary flair, he was well along a path to artistic triumph. In a remarkable testament to the power of personal connection through art, more than 600 people are expected to gather... |
Music refuses to die at cancer charity concert
-Eric Czarni, C&G Newspapers
From beginning to end, Spencer Bell poured his life into music. He listened to 1970s tunes on his parents’ old jukebox before he could eat solid food. By the time he was 4, he was writing little songs at the piano while his mother, Cathy, wrote down the music. “He constantly listened to music with his father,” she said. “He can sing all the Jim Croce.” Spencer spent much of his teen years playing the guitar... |
Spencer Bell of The Stevedores
-Amy Dupcak, Beyond Race Magazine
The Stevedores formed in the basement of their old house in Fleetwood, New York, just north of the city. The five members combined individual abilities and passions to create a truly unique and ambitious musical experience, influenced by everything from The Doors to old Westerns. Harmonious and rambunctious, blues-driven and classic-rock oriented, The Stevedores, who once described their own sound... |
Good Health: Michigan Musician Loses Battle with Adrenal Cancer
-WDIV Channel 4
Spencer Bell of Bloomfield Hills was just 20 years old when he was diagnosed with adrenal cancer in November of 2006. He died just eleven days after learning he had cancer. By the time Spencer began suffering symptoms, the cancer was so advanced that surgery was not an option. Tragically, Spencer's story is not unusual. Adrenal cancer is one of the most deadly cancers. According to the American...
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-Sarah Mayberry, WDIV
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