Posted on 10/03/2004 11:21:47 AM PDT by yankeedame
Democrat Kerry 'in top health'
From correspondents in New York
October 3, 2004
DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate John Kerry is in robust health, despite a cancer operation last year and a hectic campaign schedule, The New York Times reported today after interviewing the senator's doctors.
Regular blood tests checking for a recurrence of prostate cancer have been clean, doctors said.
Mr Kerry, whose father died of prostate cancer at age 85, had his prostate gland entirely removed in February 2003 after detection of early-stage cancer.
His doctors say he is cured.
If Mr Kerry had a recurrence, "he would be astonished, and so would I," said Dr Patrick Walsh, who performed the operation.
A review of X-rays by Mr Kerry's personal physician confirm that he has two pieces of metal shrapnel deep in his left thigh, one the size of a bullet and another a bit smaller. Mr Kerry, who has been accused of exaggerating his injuries in the Vietnam war, was treated for shrapnel wounds in 1969.
Mr Kerry, 60, has had five surgeries for sports-related injuries, the most recent in March to repair an old biking injury aggravated during the campaign.
Mr Kerry's personal physician said he might prescribe a cholesterol-lowering drug after the election, but meanwhile urged the candidate to eat peanut butter sandwiches and ice cream to make up for meals missed while campaigning.
"To hell with the cholesterol," Doctor Gerald Doyle was quoted as saying. "You can't have a gaunt-looking person running for president because people will draw conclusions that are erroneous."
Mr Kerry stands 1.95 metres tall and his normal weight is 83.9kg.
He takes no medications on a regular basis and has never been in trouble with the law for alcohol or drug abuse, the report said.
Doctors said Mr Kerry had instructed them not to withhold anything from his medical records, as past US presidents and candidates have sometimes done.
Agence France-Presse
It sounds as if sKerry were his own worst enemy. But we already knew that.
His doctors say he is cured.
I think it is remarkable that a doctor would say this after one year. I thought they liked to reserve opinion on cancers for five years.
All in all, I suspect this is a memo written up by the DNC or Dan Rather. Highly suspicous.
All his physical attributes. How about his mental health?
I'm sorry...but that's just ignorant.
I guess that Kerry has finally become impotent.
IF it were really that, dont you think, as vain as Kerry is, he would have had it out by now....I sure do.....
i think you know why the dr. mentioned that.
Catching it in the early stages is certainly favorable but it does not "cure" his disease. The ailing prostate is merely a symptom of an underlying condition.
Then please do enlighten me. You believe he has been cured? Cancer is a systemic disease process with local manifestations. Surgery prevents an outbreak from spreading but it cannot cure the persistent weakness in his immune system. Mr. Kerry can do well if he takes the proper steps to treat his condition. A harrowing and physically exhausting bid for the presidency is not indicated.
I am a breast cancer survivor. I got it at age 26. I am now almost 49. You are toally ignorant. Ask Rudy Giuliani if he considers himself "cured."
People with your backward ideas are a cancer.
I am a breast cancer survivor. I got it at age 26. I am now almost 49. You are toally ignorant. Ask Rudy Giuliani if he considers himself "cured."
People with your backward ideas are a cancer.
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