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Doctor's latest opinion: Lincoln had cancer when he was shot
Kansas City Star ^ | 11/26/07 | David Brown

Posted on 11/26/2007 6:12:47 PM PST by Huntress

Abraham Lincoln was the rarest of men, and John G. Sotos believes that extended all the way to his chromosome 10.

A physician, connoisseur of rare ailments and amateur historian, Sotos believes Lincoln had a genetic syndrome called MEN 2B. He thinks the diagnosis not only accounts for Lincoln’s great height, which has been the subject of most medical speculation over the years, but also for many of the president’s other reported ailments and behaviors.

He also suspects Lincoln was dying of cancer at the time he was assassinated, and was unlikely to have survived a year. He thinks cancer -- an inevitable element of MEN 2B -- killed at least one of Lincoln’s four sons, three of whom died before reaching age 20.

Sotos’s theory assigns one of medicine’s rarest conditions to one of the nation’s best-known figures. It is likely to be controversial. But unlike many historical diagnoses, it can be easily proved or rejected with a DNA test for the single mutation in the gene called RET on chromosome 10 that causes MEN 2B.

Samples of the martyred president’s DNA presumably exist in bloodstained fabrics scattered around the country and in eight skull fragments from Lincoln’s autopsy in the possession of the federal government. Whether anyone will be willing to sacrifice part of a relic to answer this question is another issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: abelincoln; coldcase; forensics; genetics; lincoln; presidents
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Interesting theory.
1 posted on 11/26/2007 6:12:48 PM PST by Huntress
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To: Huntress
Marfans disease ?
2 posted on 11/26/2007 6:16:34 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Huntress
He also suspects Lincoln was dying of cancer at the time he was assassinated, and was unlikely to have survived a year.

If he was that ill he may have opted to stayed home as opposed to going to see a play that night.
3 posted on 11/26/2007 6:17:47 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: Huntress

What difference does it make???


4 posted on 11/26/2007 6:18:54 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Huntress

Yawn. About as valid as the shrinks who try to diagnose Jesus.


5 posted on 11/26/2007 6:19:57 PM PST by Seruzawa (Attila the Hun... wasn't he a liberal?)
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To: org.whodat
What difference does it make???

I didn't click the link to read the whole thing but you are right. It makes me wonder if maybe some tax payer money went to the person who reached this completely irrelevant conclusion.

6 posted on 11/26/2007 6:24:16 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: Gabz; SheLion

Probably another “smoking related death”.

I don’t know if Abe ever smoked but I’m sure he was exposed to the dreaded second hand smoke at some point in his life.


7 posted on 11/26/2007 6:26:26 PM PST by Graybeard58 ( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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So what's the upshot? Probably that John Wilkes Booth was really a nice guy, a good guy, who did Lincoln a favor by saving Honest Abe from all that suffering from cancer.

Maybe Dr. Sotos is a Lib and he likes to coddle criminals and find the good in every crime committed ... like when someone is murdered, that is less carbon dioxide emitted and less burden on the planet, so perhaps murderers perform a service.

Don't laugh too hard ... so runs the twisted minds of some Leftists.

8 posted on 11/26/2007 6:27:02 PM PST by webschooner
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To: Huntress

Other then that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?


9 posted on 11/26/2007 6:36:04 PM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Huntress

I thought Lincoln was killed by gay confederates because he said homosexuality was a life-choice and he refused to fund AIDS research.


10 posted on 11/26/2007 6:37:11 PM PST by macamadamia
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“So what’s the upshot?”

I doubt there is a direct political motive for this theory (besides funding), but historians do tend to investigate things for the oddest of reasons/interests, and maybe the researcher is just interested in the topic.


11 posted on 11/26/2007 6:40:29 PM PST by WoofDog123
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Well just dig him up and run every test you can think of then

. Besides satisfying someone's curiosity, what is the purpose?

12 posted on 11/26/2007 6:44:58 PM PST by CindyDawg
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I doubt there is a direct political motive for this theory (besides funding) ...

Ah yes, but there lies the rub ... when a researcher is looking for gub-mint funding, then said researcher has to of course, find that his research comes to one or another currently politically correct conclusion in order to pry loose the pesoes from the Treasury, so to speak.

13 posted on 11/26/2007 6:46:40 PM PST by webschooner
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To: Huntress

Abraham, the first leader of free America, was destined to die on Good Friday. imo


14 posted on 11/26/2007 6:47:49 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush in 2008; mark my words.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

If that’s what it is...UBL also has Marfans disease.


15 posted on 11/26/2007 6:52:35 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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“Well just dig him up and run every test you can think of then”

IIRC, following the foiled plot to “kidnap” Lincoln’s body and hold it for ransom it was disinterred and placed in a new grave site with tons of concrete poured on top.


16 posted on 11/26/2007 6:54:15 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (If piece is the answer, Bill Clinton asked the question.)
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To: Huntress

Just what I’ve been saying all along - he would of died anyway!


17 posted on 11/26/2007 6:56:12 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

I didn’t know about that.


18 posted on 11/26/2007 7:00:37 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: shield
I’ve read that AB had Marfans. I knew an especially tall guy who thought he had it, too. He was getting taller and more uncoordinated as he got into his late 40s/early 50s...
19 posted on 11/26/2007 7:07:20 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: CindyDawg

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20 posted on 11/26/2007 7:11:02 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (If piece is the answer, Bill Clinton asked the question.)
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