Kylie Minogue, the Australian pop icon, is planning a fund raising concert for cancer societies as means of thanks for her own recovery from breast cancer.
Minogue is hoping to include in the event the Paris specialist that was integral to her recovery, which saw her undergo a partial mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy.
“Early next year it will be my five years all clear and I would like to do something to mark that—something like a benefit concert,” Minogue told The Sunday Mirror. “We are going to try and arrange something with my professor in Paris.”
The concert, planned for February next year, is expected to include some of Kylie Minogue’s famous friends, including Elton John, Robbie Williams and US pop and rock band The Scissors Sisters.
The pop world was rocked when Minogue, 42, was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005. She was forced to retreat from her celebrity world while undergoing treatment.
“I can’t quite articulate it. It’s like a prison sentence. It’s a bit like being in an atomic explosion and people asking you to describe it,” she told Elle magazine.
Minogue lost her hair, her figure, and many times her vitality, but fought back, managing to release a perfume (“Darling”), a single, and a children’s book entitled The Showgirl Princess.
The pop diva was in Australia recently to promote her new album Aphrodite and to see her baby nephew first born of her famous sister Dannii Minogue.
She told Nine Networks Current Affair she still had a few months before getting the all clear from cancer and that having that behind her would be a welcome relief.
“I get really emotional just thinking about it, actually,” she said.
The starlet said the benefit concert would be as much a celebration of her recovery as it would be a fund raiser for cancer.
“And I’m sure at the time it’s going to be a celebration, obviously, but it’s really a moment to reflect on what might have been, and everything that I have been through and my friends and family have been through with me,” she said.
According to the CancerBacup charity, one in nine women in developed countries will develop breast cancer. While the risk of developing breast cancer is very small in young women, it increases with age. More than half of breast cancers occur in women over the age of 65, and between 5 percent and 10 percent of breast cancers are caused by inherited genes.
