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ByJanet McConnaughey The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS Theroom- mate of a man arrested in a Louisiana state troop- er's death was found dead Monday, and the suspect in the trooper's slaying is also suspected in this case, a sheriff said. The man was found dead Monday in a home he shared with Kevin Daigle, 54, in Moss Bluff, Calcasieu Parish Tony Mancuso said Monday at a news confer- ence. He said a deputy went by the home Monday morning after authorities were noti- fied that the roommate had not arrived at work. The deputy found the room- mate dead amid signs of a struggle. The roommate's name was not immediately released. "We are just now pro- cessing the scene," he said. "We really don't have a lot of answers." Senior Trooper Steven Vincent, 43, died Monday, a day after an apparently stranded motorist shot him in the head and then stood over him to tell him he was going to die soon, state po- lice said. Authorities plan to charge Daigle with first-de- gree murder in the troop- er's slaying. Vincent had been trying to help a man whose pickup truck was stuck sideways in a ditch, Col. Mike Edmonson said. "Tragically these things happen far too often around the country. Our thoughts and prayers con- tinue to be with Steven and his family," said Edmonson during a news conference Monday. "I watched the tape yes- terday. It was frighten- ing to watch," Edmonson said, referring to the dash- board video. Officials have not released the video, but Edmonson said it showed that Vincent did every- thing right. Edmonson also intro- duced the good Samaritan who he said wrestled the sawed-off shotgun away from the man accused of shooting the trooper. "This is a hero," Edmon- son said of Robert LeDoux of Iowa, Louisiana, a town of about 3,100 where one of Vincent's brothers is police chief. LeDoux was the first of four people who stopped to help. Another driver who'd passed the shooting scene told LeDoux that a trooper had been shot, so LeDoux sped there, jumped out, and grabbed Kevin Daigle and "moved him off our trooper," Edmonson said. LeDoux then used Vin- cent's radio to let police know an officer was down and ask for help. LeDoux did not speak at the news conference. Ed- monson shook hands with him and then hugged him. Edmonson said Daigle, 54, of Lake Charles, was under arrest at a hospital. Police video showed Vin- cent, a 13-year state police veteran in southwest Loui- siana and member of a law enforcement family, very professionally trying to talk a man out of the vehi- cle stuck sideways in a ditch, Edmonson said Sunday. He said the truck door opened and Daigle came out with the shotgun. "That's not meant to scare people or warn peo- ple. That's meant to harm people, to kill someone," Edmonson said. He said the tape shows the shotgun blast. "I saw my trooper go backwards and back toward his unit, where he was going to try to get some help out there," Edmonson said. After the shooting, he said, Daigle wandered into the road and over to Vin- cent, asking if he was alive. "You could hear him breathing, telling him, 'You're lucky. You're lucky — you're going to die soon.' That's the words that came out of his mouth," Edmon- son said. Edmonson said Daigle had "numerous DWIs" and other arrests that he wouldn't discuss because he didn't know whether they resulted in convictions. Sgt. James Ander- son, southwest Louisiana spokesman for state po- lice, said Daigle was hos- pitalized for some scrapes and other injuries he sus- tained while the other mo- torists subdued him. Daigle is white and so was Vincent, he said. Edmonson said Vin- cent leaves behind a wife, Katherine, and a 9-year-old son, Ethan. Edmonson said Sunday that, in addition to the police chief brother, another brother is a state trooper. LOUISIANA Man held in trooper death also suspected in roommate slaying LOUISIANASTATEPOLICE Kevin Daigle LOUISIANA STATE POLICE — THE TIMES PICAYUNE Steven Vincent By Marilynn Marchione The Associated Press Second cancers are on the rise. Nearly 1 in 5 new cases in the U.S. now in- volves someone who has had the disease before. When doctors talk about second cancers, they mean a different tissue type or a different site, not a recur- rence or spread of the orig- inal tumor. Judith Bernstein of sub- urban Philadelphia is an ex- treme example. She has had eight types over the last two decades, all treated success- fully. "There was a while when I was getting one cancer di- agnosis after another," in- cluding breast, lung, esoph- ageal, and the latest — a rare tumor of her eyelids, she said. "At one point I thought I had cancer in my little finger." About 19 percent of can- cers in the United States now are second-or-more cases, a recent study found. In the 1970s, it was only 9 percent. Over that period, the number of first cancers rose 70 percent while the number of second cancers rose 300 percent. Strange as it may sound, this is partly a success story: More people are sur- viving cancer and living long enough to get it again, because the risk of cancer rises with age. Second cancers also can arise from the same gene mutations or risk fac- tors, such as smoking, that spurred the first one. And some of the very treatments that help people survive their first cancer, such as ra- diation, can raise the risk of a new cancer forming later in life, although treatments have greatly improved in re- cent years to minimize this problem. Moretraumatic Psychologically, a second cancer often is more trau- matizing than the first. "I think it's a lot tougher" for most people, said Julia Rowland, director of the federal Office of Cancer Sur- vivorship. "The first time you're diagnosed, it's fear of the unknown. When you have your next diagnosis, it's fear of the known," and having to face treatment all over again. Robert Ulrich, 58, a con- tractor and building inspec- tor in Wasilla, Alaska, said that when doctors told him in 2013 he had advanced co- lon cancer, two decades af- ter he had overcome Hodg- kin lymphoma, it was like "they put a time stamp on your existence ... it makes your head spin." He is making end-of-life plans while fighting the dis- ease with aggressive che- motherapy. "My outlook on it is, I got 30 years out of the first go- round which gave me an op- portunity to raise my fam- ily and enjoy my bride. So whatever time I get forward here I consider free time," he said. "You hope for the best and you prepare for the worst." Imagine what it has been like for Bernstein, 72, the Philadelphia-area woman who has had skin, lym- phoma, breast, two types of lung, esophageal, thyroid and now the eyelid cancer, a form of lymphoma. "I'm not going to tell you I'm some uber human be- ing," Bernstein said. She went to a psychiatrist after one diagnosis and "spent four days very upset" after the latest one. But she said that exercis- ing has helped her feel well through treatments, and that having endured many tragedies among her friends and family has given her re- silience. "Some people just can grieve and deal with it" when faced with challenges like cancer, she said. "She is so upbeat," said Barbara Rogers, a nurse practitioner at Fox Chase Cancer Center who has treated Bernstein for more than a decade. For most pa- tients, "it is harder the sec- ond time around, or third or fourth ... like, 'Oh, God, not again.'" Medically, second can- cers pose special chal- lenges. Treatment choices may be more limited. For example, radiation usually isn't given to the same area of the body more than once. Some drugs also have life- time dose limits to avoid nerve or heart damage. "The body has a memory for the radiation or chemo- therapy" and can't endure too much of the same type, said Dr. Alan Venook, a colon and liver cancer expert at the University of California, San Francisco, who treats Ulrich, the Alaska man. A second cancer means doctors need to assess ge- netic risk to the patient and possibly the family, Venook said. "We've failed if a woman who had a BRCA1 muta- tion and had breast cancer develops colon cancer," he said. The gene mutation means she should be mon- itored and screened often enough for other cancers to have any precancerous colon growths removed, he said. Advice Experts have this advice for cancer survivors: • Have a formal survi- vorship plan, a blueprint for the future that includes a detailed summary of the treatment you received and what kind of monitoring is needed. "Anyone who's had a first cancer needs to understand what kinds of symptoms they need to be alert to and what kind of medical fol- low-up" they need, said Eliz- abeth Ward, an American Cancer Society researcher who authored a recent re- port on second cancers. • Don't neglect screen- ings for other forms of can- cer besides the one you were treated for. Make sure to get any recommended tests such as colonoscopies, mammograms or HPV or Pap tests. • If you get a second can- cer, "take a deep breath," Rowland said. Treatments improve every day, and there are more resources, including social media, for support, and doctors are more used to treating can- cer more than once. HEALTH Second cancers on the rise; 1 in 5 US cases is a repeat MATT ROURKE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nurse Caitlin Fanning, le , inserts an IV for Judith Bernstein's chemotherapy at the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Published by The Daily News with great appreciation for the support of local businesses! 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