Posted on 10/04/2004 12:25:05 AM PDT by Jenya
WASHINGTON (Oct. 3) - Sen. John Kerry's doctors have told him he is cured of the prostate cancer that sidelined him almost two years ago and that there is a slim chance it could recur in the next decade, The New York Times said Sunday in a report based on interviews with the Democratic presidential nominee and several of his physicians.
"I am cured," the 60-year-old Kerry said in the interview last month. "I am cancer-free, and the percentages of me being cancer-free 10 years from now are about as good as they get."
Kerry's doctors have told him there is a slim chance his cancer may return in the next decade.
He characterized the cancer as a nonissue in the campaign against President Bush.
Kerry's doctors said they told him he was cured, based on the results of an array of tests. They also have concluded he had a less than 3 percent chance of a recurrence in the next nine years. Even if the cancer came back, Kerry's doctors and other experts said it could be treated without seriously interfering with Kerry's presidential duties, should he be elected on Nov. 2.
"The likelihood that he is going to have a significant problem with this cancer is infinitesimally small," said Dr. Patrick C. Walsh, the Johns Hopkins University urologist who removed Kerry's entire prostate gland during surgery in February 2003.
Since then, blood tests performed at six month intervals have indicated no recurrence of cancer. The most recent test was done on Sept. 18 during a house call by Dr. Gerald J. Doyle, Kerry's personal physician in Boston.
10/03/04 10:05 EDT
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
That's what my doc told me. And that you're at increased risk to develop the same or another form of cancer for up to 12 years.
Yet more 'nuance'. That is not a description of a cure. Prostate cancer, like most cancers, has no cure. It only becomes increasingly unlikely to return, as time passes.
I'd like to know just what type of treatment he had. Chemo, surgery, radiation, or combination of any of the above.
Two years is too short.
His demand to give nukes to Iran suggests cranial metastases.
Or dementia.
I think the voters should be informed of any medications he may be taking. Some of the drugs are powerful and can be mood altering.
It is my understanding that he had surgery only (radical prostatectomy)
I believe the doctors also said there is absolutely no chance of Kerry getting testicular cancer, since he has no balls.
That figures.
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