Author keeps up her humor in face of persistent cancer

By Lee Cataluna

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 19, 2012

~~<p>When the cancer came back again, Hawaii-born author Margaret Mitchell Dukore posted a challenge on Facebook: Tell me what I'm not going to miss when I'm gone. She primed the pump with some examples: nuclear war, Chuck E. Cheese, spellcheck …</p>
<p>Dukore, 60, a 1968 Punahou graduate known as Margie to her friends, survived breast cancer in 2007. She had two surgeries and radiation and took the whole thing in stride. "I'm probably one of the very few who can say that my ‘breast cancer experience' was painless, and even entertaining," she said. Entertaining because she was part of the entertainment, joking with medical staff and sharing her irreverent observations.</p>
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When the cancer came back again, Hawaii-born author Margaret Mitchell Dukore posted a challenge on Facebook: Tell me what I'm not going to miss when I'm gone. She primed the pump with some examples: nuclear war, Chuck E. Cheese, spellcheck …

Dukore, 60, a 1968 Punahou graduate known as Margie to her friends, survived breast cancer in 2007. She had two surgeries and radiation and took the whole thing in stride. "I'm probably one of the very few who can say that my ‘breast cancer experience' was painless, and even entertaining," she said. Entertaining because she was part of the entertainment, joking with medical staff and sharing her irreverent observations. Login for more...