Conversation so far:
What year did Lilyan Tashman die?
1934.
Where did she die?
New York City.
Was she buried there?
The burial in Brooklyn's Washington Cemetery.
How did she die?
Tashman died of cancer.
What kind of cancer did she have?
abdominal cancer.
When was she diagnosed?
In 1932, Tashman entered the hospital in New York City for an appendectomy that is now considered a concealment for abdominal cancer.

Question: How did she handle this?
Self-contained rewrite: How did Lilyan Tashman handle the news of her cancer ?