I’m very sorry to hear that. I wish him well. It’s helpful that he has an excellent health package.
I don’t wish that on him, my hope for him was that he would spend the rest of his life sharing a jail cell with Barney Frank.
Less than 1 in 8 men who have prostate cancer die of prostate cancer.
Are they gonna pull a toricelli since he can’t win reelection?
SO why this announcement? For sympathy in preparation for a re-election run?
He can rest up in his Irish cottage after we retire him.
While that sucks for him, my only wish is that they pass health care reform WITHOUT the EXEMPTION for themselves. It would be the ultimate irony that the thing deemed to save the serfs, dooms the oligarchs.
Sympathy ploy or the seeding (NPI) of a reason to withdraw from public life? After all, he has a great retirement home.
Prayers he gets better while in prison.
While I don’t think very much of Christopher Dodd as a human being, I would not wish that on anyone.
Prayers for him and his family.
Can we send him to Canada for treatment, I hear they have a really good success rate for treating cancer. Canada’s heath care system is the best in the world. Or so I have been told over and over again.
At his age (65), it is likely not life-threatening, especially since they caught it early. It’s younger men getting it that they worry most about.
My only question is, “Does that mean he won’t run again — or is he just setting the stage to appeal for sympathy votes?”
This should not bother Dodd. He has promoted death for over 50 million Americans. If it’s been good enough for 50 million babies, it’s good enough for him. I will expend sympather elsewhere. It is preposterous to pretend to be mournful when mass-murdering tyrants fall ill or die.
NHS U-turn on prostate cancer treatment
By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent
Published: 12:01AM GMT 16 Dec 2007
A life-saving treatment will be denied to tens of thousands of victims of Britain’s most common male cancer after a U-turn by the NHS rationing body.
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Suitable for treatment in the early stages of the disease, when it is not known how quickly it will spread, the ultrasound therapy is regarded by doctors as a vital new weapon in the battle against prostate cancer.
The UK’s most prevalent cancer among men, prostate cancer kills 10,000 a year, with 35,000 more cases diagnosed annually. A third of men over 50 contract it.
Three years ago, the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) said men across the country should be offered the treatment, called High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (Hifu), free on the NHS.
But The Sunday Telegraph has learnt that Nice has now decided to reverse that decision. In the New Year, the controversial rationing body will massively restrict the use of the HIFU treatment.
Instead of it being available to all prostate cancer sufferers, it will now be restricted only to those who have already failed to respond to conventional treatment and whose cancer has returned.
The decision, set to be made in February, means Hifu will not be available to the vast majority of prostate cancer sufferers.
Cancer charities and senior doctors last night attacked the move as a U-turn.
Mark Emberton, a consultant urologist at University College Hospital, London, said he was worried that patients would be forced into the private sector, “which would be a disaster”, if they wanted the treatment.
He also questioned the logic of only offering Hifu to men whose cancer had returned, while denying it to patients in the early stages of the disease.
Meanwhile, Stephen Brown, a consultant urologist at Stepping Hill hospital, Stockport, said: “We think Hifu is a really good option for patients who want a lesser procedure.”
Prof Roger Kirby, who chairs the Prostate UK charity, also decried the decision. He said: “Restricting the treatments available will have a massive impact on the patient.”
Since Nice made its original ruling, permitting the use of Hifu, just 300 men have been given the treatment on the NHS.
Primary care trusts have so far been slow to foot the bill for the treatment, which is one-off but costs about £13,000.
This amount compares with £3,000 for radiotherapy, which takes six weeks, and £5,000 for surgery.
It is understood that Nice, which has refused to comment on its new guidelines, will rule that there is insufficient evidence to prove that Hifu has long-term value.
The U-turn comes despite the research published last month in the European Journal of Urology which found that eight out of 10 men were healthy five years after being treated with Hifu.
I hope he is healed, but I also hope that a fresh reminder of his mortality leads to repentance,
May God bless him and his family.
Early stage prostate is very curable I’m hearing on the news.
Therefore, this could also could become a “wag the dog” over Dodd’s calling tens of thousands in bribes that he received a mere “courtesy.”
How old is Dodd?? How much is the treatment going to cost?? Is it worth it to save an old man whose life is nearing an end when untold millions have no health insurance?? Questions Obamacare will ask.
Oh, never mind. Members of Congress won’t be covered by Obamacare and aren’t subject to its limitations on care for senior citizens.
Though I certainly hope Dodd can overcome the cancer, it is, as Obama would say, a “teachable moment” to the public. The Senator will have care not always available to ordinary citizens if the Obama/Pelosi health care legislation is passed.
This Connecticut native is sorry Dodd is ill. And, this Connecticut native hopes that Dodd takes this illness as a sign to step down and ‘spend more time with his family’. Because, if he doesn’t, this Connecticut native hopes that Dodd is a). trounced in his reelection bid, or b). gets hauled off to jail for being a low-life POS.
Great News!!!!Put him on the new and improved obummercare program. He will live long and prosper!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, maybe. Better to send in the deathcare specialists.
So, like Kennedy, we can’t criticize him anymore. There is no level of sleaze Dems won’t stoop too. He is a bad guy who did bad things. That doesn’t change with a malignant glioma..