Michael Landon died at age 54 of pancreatic cancer.
Michael Landon’s death came as a surprise. On April 15, 1991, at the age of 54, the actor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at an advanced stage, as it had metastasized to the liver and lymph nodes.
On May 21, 1991, landon He was successfully operated on because of a blood clot that could have caused his left leg. After a few days, on July 1, 1991, almost three months after learning of the disease, he died.
Was there a trigger for cancer?
30 years after his death, the Mag site of El Comercio of Peru published a report on the possible triggers of Landon’s disease.
The note recalls that a few years ago the entertainment signal Reelz Channel was released an investigation in the vicinity of Little House on the Prairie set from the Santa Susana field laboratory.
Michael Landon produced and starred in The Ingalls Family.
According to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, in 1959 there was a “partial collapse of a nuclear reactor”.
The Reelz Channel narrator said in a note for People that the series was taped for nine years just 15 miles from the Santa Susana Nuclear Laboratory. “When hundreds of local residents started suffering from cancerscientists have discovered that Santa Susana’s laboratory was the site of the worst radioactive disaster in U.S. history and years of contamination have caused a cancer epidemic, ”he said.
As a result of the increase in the number of cancer cases, many studies have been conducted in the area. According to forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Hunter, “Studies have concluded that environmental pollution is responsible for up to 2,000 cancer-related deaths and leads to a 60 percent increase in cancers such as lung, bladder, kidney, liver, blood, lymph nodes, upper digestive tract .Among others “.
Regarding Landon’s case, Hunter is cautious: “Despite scientific studies linking proximity to the site with a high cancer rate, there is no scientific evidence to suggest that Michael’s pancreatic cancer was caused by working too close to the contaminated area. Although I can’t completely eliminate it, it may be related to another reason.”.
Michael Landon in “Road to Heaven,” another of his iconic roles.
The Last Hours by Michael Landon
Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert -a father in fiction- has cultivated a great friendship and a relationship of deep admiration.
A week before his death, Gilbert He went to it and was inevitably surprised to see her fainting.
“She was super thin and weak,” Gilbert wrote in his book Prairie Tale. “She looks twice as old. Her hair is white and her skin is gray. All its colors have faded. It looks almost invisible.”
The actress also recalls in her book the moment she found out about the death: the television was on and she was playing with her daughter Dakota. He suddenly heard the news on CNN.
Gilbert said he was “heartbroken” at the time. For a moment he thought the information was wrong. Until Leslie, Landon’s daughter, confirmed the sad news.
Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert formed a great friendship with The Ingalls Family.
Landon’s supernatural visions
the site note Mag of El Comercio of Peru account Gilbert recounted in his book when Leslie told him that Landon had seen “the day before we die is the proverbial light that helps people move from this world to the next. He also said that he visualized his late mother waiting for him.
“Listening to him did not lessen my grief, but it assured me that death is not a scary thing. Otherwise, a move to something else, ”Gilbert wrote in his book.
Source: Clarin
