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Gov. Phil Murphy has tumor on kidney, likely cancer
NJ.com ^ | 2/22/20 | Brent Johnson

Posted on 02/22/2020 8:10:42 PM PST by usafa92

Gov. Phil Murphy disclosed Saturday he has a tumor on his kidney that is 90 percent likely to be cancerous and will soon undergo surgery.

Murphy, 62, told NJ Advance Media that doctors caught it at an early stage and have “complete confidence” they’ll be able to fully remove the tumor. He said he does not expect he’ll have to undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment.

“The expectation is that overwhelmingly, assuming nothing happens on the operating table or you don’t get an infection or something, you’re back on your feet and back in the game without any impairment going forward,” Murphy said during an interview at his Middletown home alongside First Lady Tammy Murphy.

While 90 percent of such tumors are malignant, doctors won’t know if it is renal cell carcinoma until after the surgery, Murphy’s office said. They said it is stage T1A, which according to the medical website Cancer.Net, is “where the tumor is found only in the kidney" and is 4 centimeters or smaller "at its largest area.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: cancer; murphy; newjersey; philmurphy; tumor
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To: dp0622
One of Murphy's first acts as Governor was to sign legislation that hyper-criminalized the state's already draconian gun laws. As a result, tens of thousands of law abiding citizens automatically became Instant Felons.

And if these citizens got tossed into prison for a few years, well, that's just their tough luck.

These are the actions of tyrants.

21 posted on 02/23/2020 2:59:46 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: NFHale

God has a sense of humor, it was the babies stupid


22 posted on 02/23/2020 4:06:03 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nick dip .com)
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To: usafa92

God moves in mysterious ways...


23 posted on 02/23/2020 4:37:35 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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To: usafa92

Even though I hate his politics, I’ll pray for his health. We shouldn’t be like liberals, who are happy when they heard Rush had lung cancer, but we should pray for everyone with health issues...


24 posted on 02/23/2020 4:38:10 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

“””””””””They can just remove the kidney he will be fine with one kidney!!”””””””””””””””””””””””

That’s what they said when they found a tumor in my wifes kidney. They took out the kidney and all was well.

Until the next year when they found a tumor in the other kidney and then the next year when they found numerous tumors in both lungs.

And then this year they found more lung tumors.

Surgical removal is the only option for these tumors. Chemo and radiation don’t work.

Kidney cancer can spread to anywhere.


25 posted on 02/23/2020 5:05:46 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: McGavin999
Probably not at all serious.

Correct. I had a T2b tumor on my left kidney three years ago. His stage 1 is almost an outpatient procedure these days. They’ll do a partial nephrectomy or microwave ablation and he’ll be home the next day.

26 posted on 02/23/2020 5:07:16 AM PST by IFly4Him
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To: usafa92

Good thing Bloomberg- Emanuel care hasn’t arrived yet. Treatment under their plans consists of a vinyl recliner, bed pan, and morphine-thorazine cocktails.


27 posted on 02/23/2020 5:19:54 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: usafa92
Phil has done a lot of damage to this state, which is all I will say....

And he is not finished yet. I wish him a recovery and an extended (immediate) retirement. That being said, his lieutenant governor (Sheila Oliver) is every bit as radical and is a lifetime, leftist career government employee so there are no good options in NJ except to leave. I fear that if Murphy is given a terminal diagnosis, he will go full leftard bolshevik with nothing to lose.

Hopefully within 2 years I will be able to shed the proverbial 'golden handcuffs' that are keeping me in this state for now and make my way south to Tennessee with my 15-round mags in tow (but let's keep that last part a secret since 15-rounders are "frowned upon" here in NJ).

28 posted on 02/23/2020 5:26:13 AM PST by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: usafa92

People live fine without one of two kidneys.

Remove the kidney and be done with this. We have far too many people on this thread scared of this reasonable scenario.


29 posted on 02/23/2020 5:34:51 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: shelterguy

I understand, but this whole article is around it only being in one kidney. It’s sized and nothing is seen in other areas.

Your wife already, sadly, had progressed rather far beyond his stated problem.

He’s probably gotten a body scan to check. My wife and I both had a non-contrast body scan done a few months back, and a contrast body scan, especially a certain PET contrast scan (there are also MRI and CT scans) identifies only cancers throughout the body. They show up as glowing areas only where cancer is.


30 posted on 02/23/2020 5:40:52 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: usafa92

Screw Phil Murphy. That is all.


31 posted on 02/23/2020 5:55:34 AM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: ConservativeMind

“”””’I understand, but this whole article is around it only being in one kidney. It’s sized and nothing is seen in other areas.

Your wife already, sadly, had progressed rather far beyond his stated problem.”””””””””””””””

Not so. Scans taken a few moths after the first kidney removal showed no expansion beyond the first kidney.

After a tumor was removed from the second kidney, scans taken a few months later showed no expansion.

She had tumors removed from both lungs last fall. A scan a month ago showed evidence of some more starting to grow.


32 posted on 02/23/2020 5:57:07 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: usafa92

Don’t wish cancer on anyone.

This is what my Dad had thirty years ago. It didn’t kill him. Took out the kidney and he was good for another 15 years.


33 posted on 02/23/2020 6:00:06 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: shelterguy

For your wife, up the many studies on kidney and lung cancers and grape seed extract’s ability to help.

Copy/paste these in your search engine of choice:

Kidney cancer grape seed extract
Lung cancer grape seed extract


34 posted on 02/23/2020 6:08:02 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Her doctors are at the Mayo in Rochester. They haven’t said anything about the grape seed treatment yet.


35 posted on 02/23/2020 6:35:35 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: fatima; dp0622

Nothing about his comment suggests he (dp0622) isn’t “trusting in divine providence”.


36 posted on 02/23/2020 6:56:44 AM PST by Romans Nine
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To: shelterguy

It never fails, the chime-in for the cure-all.


37 posted on 02/23/2020 7:46:11 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: shelterguy

My father also passed of kidney carcinoma, they told him after removing kidney they got it all he died 3 months later BUT that was 40 years ago he was only 47 years old!! I figure they have much better results this many years later but maybe not!!


38 posted on 02/23/2020 8:02:22 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

There have been a lot of improvements on that type of cancer even in the last five years.

My son has brain cancer and shortly before Christmas they told us it was terminal. My son opted for some experimental drugs, think Right To Try. He is also dong a clinical study in a hospital out of state that is trying T-Cell infusion.

Most likely the drugs and treatments will not help him but through the information they gain by doing research on him it will help others in the future.


39 posted on 02/23/2020 8:12:39 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

Very sorry to hear about your son praying for your family, you never know these drugs may provide a miracle a long with the hand of God of course!!!


40 posted on 02/23/2020 8:34:15 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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