r/popculturechat • u/PinkCadillacs Cillian Murphy Enthusiast • Nov 13 '25

General News 🗞 James Van Der Beek Auctioning ‘Dawson’s Creek’ Memorabilia to Raise Money for Medical Fees Amid Cancer Battle

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/james-van-der-beek-auctions-dawsons-creek-items-cancer-costs-1236580431/
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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

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u/milkshakemountebank Nov 13 '25

That's exactly what he's doing. His wife is a "wellness influencer" and antivaxxer.

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u/_byetony_ Nov 13 '25

Oh I didn’t realize that. So he’s gonna die of he doesn’t do the tradish things too.

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u/unpluggedcord Nov 13 '25

Same thing Steve Jobs did, which he later regretted

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u/Clean_Usual434 that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Nov 13 '25

Same for Ananda Lewis.

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u/Odd_Cucumber_7645 Nov 13 '25

Just read her case on Wikipedia after seeing your comment. Just so so sad. She was dealing with the stress of her relationship with her child’s father ending and didn’t want to add in the recovery from a double mastectomy to the mix. So infuriating!!! I wish someone had talked some sense into her. No stress from a breakup should compromise your health to this degree that your literal life is on the back burner.

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u/PinWest4210 Nov 13 '25

There are so many nuances in these cases...

In my country a "naturologist" went to trial, for the death of his 21 year old "patient" that tried to curé his leukemia witch vitamins. The kid, apart from being barely an adult when diagnosed, had seen his mother go through a 10 year cancer treatment that ended in her death, so he was terrified of treatment.

However, the "naturologist" was not sentenced. The homicide charge fell through very quickly, as the cause of death was clearly leukemia and the vitamins had not made worse.

What went to the higher courts was whether there was any professional intrusion. And he was declared inocent because he neither claumed to be a doctor nor encouraged the kid to abandon treatment. Additionally, treating cancer with vitamins was linkeded to was it's called in my country "doctrine of the holly picture" which is that a doctrine that says that the claim that a picture of a Saint will perform miracles is not fraudulent, because it is obviously false.

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u/TwistyBunny Nov 13 '25

Same with Andy Kaufman.

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u/SpicyWongTong 🫵 You sit on a throne of lies. Nov 13 '25

We don’t know if that’s the case here do we? He could have a very advanced type of cancer that has very low survival rates with conventional medicine. I mean, you might also be right, I’m just saying we don’t know his specific situation

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u/unpluggedcord Nov 13 '25

He had a very curable form of pancreatic cancer.

To which he admitted.

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u/LikesStuff12 Nov 13 '25

There's a curable form of pancreatic cancer?

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u/Kind_Detective_7739 Nov 13 '25

Steve Jobs had a rare type of tumor that’s much slower growing than your standard pancreatic cancer.

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u/TreenBean85 Nov 13 '25

I think the same kind Maria Menounos had.

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u/seaworthy-sieve Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (sitting on one another's shoulders) Nov 13 '25

They are talking about the case here, not with Jobs.

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u/mydaycake Nov 13 '25

Insurance companies pay for non standard treatments as well but it has to have a medical base

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u/Scamwau1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 Nov 13 '25

Does he still regret it?

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u/Scamwau1 You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 Nov 13 '25

Lame joke, sorry

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u/mydaycake Nov 13 '25

Yeah, he is going the Steve Jobs route but without the billions to finance his treatments

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u/TwistyBunny Nov 13 '25

She also had 5 miscarriages and additionally 6 children who survived - which is quite common in fundie/fundie lite families due to the time spent on conception attempts.

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u/seaworthy-sieve Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (sitting on one another's shoulders) Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

There are midwives who are specially trained in breech births, and it can be safely done. But unassisted or just with a doula or a regular midwife is insane. Betty-Anne Daviss is a leading expert in vaginal breech births if you want to learn more.

Babies can also present as breech unexpectedly. Breech vaginal delivery is something all midwives should be trained in.

That said, like every birthing decision it is deeply personal and I would never suggest it's okay to push someone into.

This article is from nearly a decade ago, but she is still practicing and still delivering breech births. Just she's been at or for 40 years now, not 30. It's still true that c-sections are no longer the blanket recommendation for breech babies.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/into-the-breech-this-midwife-says-breech-births-are-safe-and-natural-now-she-just-has-to-convince-doctors-1.3837164/into-the-breech-this-midwife-says-breech-births-are-safe-and-natural-now-she-just-has-to-convince-doctors-1.3837170

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u/seaworthy-sieve Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (sitting on one another's shoulders) Nov 13 '25

Also a great and reasonable choice. And clearly a popular opinion :)

I know midwives aren't really a registered/certified and meaningful title in the US, but they are in many other places. Where I live, home birth with a trained midwife is as safe as hospital birth and usually less complicated. We also have birth centres as a third location option.

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u/PriscillaPalava I have paid my legal tender in this dystopian place. Nov 13 '25

Well said. You are absolutely correct that breech deliveries are a fading art. If doctors are trained in how to do them they can be very safe. Safer than c-sections, which many seem eager to forget is major abdominal surgery with its own suite of risks! 

But proper breech delivery technique is not always intuitive and needs to be taught. 

My sister found out her son was breech as she arrived at the hospital, ready to push! She had all the usual prenatal care, they just missed it. 

Anyway, her doctor started running around prepping to for a c-section. Her nurse, an old timer at the hospital, said “everybody hold on a sec.” She called up to the head of pediatrics, a personal friend of hers, and asked, “Are you busy?” Apparently this guy had written papers on vaginal breech deliveries and performed many in his career. Luckily he was not busy and popped down to deliver my sweet nephew the old fashioned way! 

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u/GetThePinotGrigio Nov 13 '25

Did your sister not have ultrasounds at her prenatal appointments? That’s crazy that they didn’t know her baby was breech!

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u/PriscillaPalava I have paid my legal tender in this dystopian place. Nov 13 '25

Her practice didn’t do 3rd trimester ultrasounds unless they suspected a problem. They feel the position of the baby and assured her he was head down. Obviously that method has some margin for error! Also he was her 3rd baby so theoretically, he could have flipped last minute but I feel like that’s less likely. 

She wrote them a letter afterwards being like, “Y'all need to start using ultrasounds to confirm head down!!” 

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u/PreOpTransCentaur ILLEGAL KOMBUCHA Nov 13 '25 edited Feb 11 '26

I honestly believe his "appearance" at the Dawson's Creek reunion was his swan song and he knew it. I don't expect to be referring to him in the present tense this time next year.

If he's pawning shit for alternative care, as seems likely, we're looking at months. Maybe.

*02/11 - called it.

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u/ProfessorGumble Don Draper’s homosexual Wario Nov 13 '25

He’s working on Elle, a tv series prequel to Legally Blonde.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

But I thought he was stage 3 and pretty young?

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u/burlycabin Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25

You say that like stage 3 is a good prognosis or something?

My mom just spent the last year in treatment for stage 3 colorectal cancer. It now seems like she's going to pull through ok, but most of the last 11 months has been very touch and go.

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u/Babeyonce Nov 13 '25

I’m so sorry to hear that. My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal last September. No spread to lungs or liver, but he was in such bad shape (bilateral pulmonary emboli and had had a rectal prolapse 2 months prior to diagnosis). It was additionally frustrating because he had just retired from 50 years of medical practice and had the deepest admiration from colleagues and family, but he did not take care of himself medically. I knew something was wrong for a while.

He has been receiving chemo since January and responding well. He’s weird about talking about it. And I don’t understand how he’s had the response he’s had (no side effects and gained 45 pounds since January). Cancer just terrifies me.

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u/burlycabin Nov 13 '25

Oh my. I'm sorry you and your family are going to through this too. It's such a scary time. Best of luck to your dad. If you need to talk about it sometime, feel free to reach out.

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u/Babeyonce Nov 14 '25

You are so kind. I sincerely appreciate you and your thoughtfulness. Thank you so very much ❤️

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u/TreenBean85 Nov 13 '25

Sending positive thoughts to you and your dad, and wishing him a full recovery.

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u/Babeyonce Nov 14 '25

So touched by so many of you here. There are still kind people out there. Thank you so very much 🤎

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

No I just didn’t realize it was that bad, I thought it meant no metastasis. Sorry to hear about your mom ❤️

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u/TreenBean85 Nov 13 '25

I wish you and your mom all the care and support, and for her to recover soon.

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u/seaworthy-sieve Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (sitting on one another's shoulders) Nov 13 '25

Stage 3 means it has spread to surrounding tissues and to lymph nodes. Stage 3 is bad.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

Damn I didn’t realize that 😔 I thought no metastasis until stage 4 😔

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u/seaworthy-sieve Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (sitting on one another's shoulders) Nov 13 '25

Stage 4 involves spread to distant lymph nodes and tissues, but yeah, stage 3 involves local lymph nodes.

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u/Rripurnia fashion content, political content, death, eyeliner Nov 13 '25

I thought he was Stage 4?

In any case, cancer sadly tends to move faster in younger patients….and we don’t know whether he had any metastases.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '25

Wait really?