Posted on 10/15/2015 2:15:18 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, renowned chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, underwent a two-hour operation at Hopkins yesterday for prostate cancer and should be ready to go home by Saturday, his surgeon said.
Although tests indicating whether the cancer had spread will take a few days to complete, Dr. Patrick Walsh said, the disease appeared confined to the prostate gland. If lab studies confirm that, he said, the possibility for a cure will be high.
"Everything looked good," said Walsh, Hopkins' chief of urology. "I've said I think this is a curable cancer, and everything today looked compatible with that."
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Check the date. This is from 2002.
Yeah, and what does that mean. I post here all the time. What is your point?
Sorry if we were a little hard on you...
WHY DOES CANCER FOR 12 YEARS AGO MATTER AT ALL?
i’m not voting for him but this is one of the silliest threads i’ve seen in a while
Well, that’s not exact either.
He got cancer.
He had the surgery.
He followed up with supplements.
The issue comes from the “commercial” he did for the supplement company. The quotes are not clear whether or not told audiences about the surgery.
Being a hack for a supplement company is kind of shady. But we also had a President who was a huckster for Boraxo.
It has to do with this article posted on FR:
Ben Carson Bungles Again, Treating Cancer with Supplements
Posted on October 7, 2015 by Gil Ross:
See post # 19, then you understand why this was posted. I too won’t vote for him unless he is the candidate that wins the nomination, which I find highly unlikely. Certainly not the horse I am rooting for.
I was not aware of the prostate cancer for BC.
We were born days apart, and diagnosed within the a couple of years.
I’ve had two recurrences. It is common to use supplements to slow the growth of PSA rise to the extent you outlive the recurrence.
The question is: which supplements? What dietary changes? The story is changing often. You have to go with properly performed double blind studies selecting a relevant population.
I’m sure Carson was making an educated guess on this, same as many medical oncologists are reduced to making, as we don’t know who will respond to what.
Either way this is not an endorsement of support for Dr. Carson, but merely provided as a point of reference for the truth.
Are you saying Reagan was a huckster? Interesting, especially given the naivety of most Americans back in those days as to the power of the TV media. My guess is he was just making a living, and he may have actually even liked the product. Either way, I wish we had that huckster back.
More proof that on Free Republic, no one, ever, under any circumstances, reads the article anymore. And, in fact, the very large majority only look at the title of the thread and launch into some inane sentence fragment response. How do we get our Free Republic back?
We are no different than the babble on Facebook and the comments that can be found on for what passes as journalism on the web pages that rely on their livelihood on page hits. May we be delivered from this nonsense. But, in reality, there is no hope.
Meanwhile, Carson is suspending his campaign for a book tour
Old news is good news. A diagnosis of prostate cancer is not a death sentence.
An educated guess coupled with personal experience it sounds like. Anyway, the infomercial or testimony said nothing even remotely the claims made by the other person that the link in # 19 eludes to.
They (movie stars) were always doing commercials. Not really different from today. If you go look for it I am sure you could find RR hawking Cheterfields or Winstons. That would sacrilege today. But it was all in a day’s work in the 50’s and 60’s.
Yep
No problem. I noticed that your post had been deleted for not having a link so I provide a post with the link. Not that I got much in the way of thanks. LOL
No problem. I noticed that your post had been deleted for not having a link so I provide a post with the link. Not that I got much in the way of thanks. LOL
Sorry to hear that, perhaps you might look at the link to his infomercial/testimony that I provided as a link to in post #30. He sure seems to tout those supplements.
Read post @ 19 and you will understand why I did that.
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