Evelyn Lauder Dies of Ovarian Cancer at Age 75

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Welcome back a true champion of cancer research lost her own battle with the disease last night Evelyn Lauder.

The daughter in -- cosmetics giant Estee Lauder died from complications of ovarian cancer.

At the age of 75.

And 1992.

She helped create that pink ribbon assembled -- -- records in breast cancer awareness.

-- -- panel is back KT McFarland Judy Miller and Ellen Ratner.

And thanks for sticking around adding you know I'll have personal stories to share on this topic so I'll start first with you know what -- some.

My best friend with my sister in law's sister -- Hermanson died of cancer in my system I started this thing called allens Ron.

Captains on Long Island every summer that were given away since Allen died two point seven million dollars -- -- there's a lot of wonderful things that can happen.

I mean I've also -- have a friend that was had breast cancer three times but she surviving.

Things have been and really an amazing and -- is run dot org we -- -- Amazon dot org that's right and well I just want to pay tribute to an amazing woman Evelyn Leiter who.

Always had time for women who would call her from all over the country.

Who managed to raising being at a family run a multibillion.

Dollar.

Cosmetics foundation -- industry and in -- end.

Start at fifteen million dollar research foundation and we're wearing these ribbons today -- at least I am in honor of her.

And she is a life.

That I think should be a role model.

For young women today and it would help people we actually start talking about we hate to talk about it because of -- lighter because she was -- -- -- The first person who walked him.

Was -- -- our cosmetics and said.

It's going to be OK here's how you get a -- and here's how you put makeup on and so god bless have a lot of she's she's.

If I would have been pink ribbons that also opened the door for so many other.

Organizations and causes that they -- so other -- starting to pop up for alzheimer's awareness and -- they have the purple ribbons and and so it really did open the door for a lot of other companies yeah.

They should talk about -- I don't -- how they -- are now we're all aware our daughter's room where else.

Came right out but there's still something we need to do which is to emphasize the need to be tested -- yeah me disease you do not have to -- if it is caught early enough so mammograms.

-- had some genetic testing he may have -- -- that's correlated with cancer we can do something about this and Evelyn would have wanted to ask and don't think that you're -- yeah right well I haven't.

We got may have -- Young -- as -- -- and it reinstatement as recently she's on the I -- definitely something we need to be aware.

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