My former boss - a great guy and a veteran - was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The treatment for it took him out of work for a while, but he came back and was doing really good. And then it killed him when it came out of remission. Despite all the drugs and other treatment, it took him out of work for over a year, then a couple of years after it went into remission, despite all the careful medical care and treatment, he died from it. This was just a few years ago. This is a serious disease.
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Spiff, that is the natural and inevitable result of NHL, and only a fool would run for Prez with that kind of a prognosis, and only a fool would overlook it in the voting booth. NHL is a death sentence — a long slow one, but it is inescapable. I saw my dad die of it two years ago, and it is not pretty.
Actually, I had no idea prior to this thread the man had cancer.
And we are supposed to believe a rabid Mittiac as he does all he can to sow doubt? LOL
"Non-Hodgkins lymphoma" isn't one disease—it's many distinct conditions all lumped into one category. There are fast, aggressive NHLs and slow ("indolent"), treatable ones. The fact that your boss was out of work for a year during treatment means he had the former kind. Someone very close to me, on the other hand, has had an indolent NHL, the same kind Thompson has from what I've gathered, for over a year now, and she's missed a grand total of nine days of work.
Neither Thompson nor his doctors are lying or stupid. Indolent NHL is serious, yes, but it's highly treatable. There's no reason to believe that his lymphoma will prevent him from serving two full terms; in fact, odds are good NHL won't be what kills him when he does eventually die.