Posted on 10/25/2004 9:01:03 AM PDT by DocCincy
He could have had a lump; my first husband had this same thing.
Does anyone know the cell type? If papillary or follicular cell carcinoma the survival rate is very high. If this is anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid he will not survive. The one year survival rate approaches 0%. If medullary carcinoma this is easily treated. Most likely papillary carcinoma with excellent outcome. One pos states he had a trachaeostomy on Friday. This is not that common unless there is invasion in the paratrachael and trachae itself. I have performed many thyroidectomies and can only remember 1 case in which a trachaeostomy was required.
Most justices retire at the end of the term, which is at the end of June.
Prayers offered up.
Some thyroid cancers(in fact most) are readily treatable. Some have an extremely poor prognosis. My mother got a form of thyroid cancer about 14 months ago. The doctors immediately diagnosed the cancer as terminal and she passed away 4 months later--if they would have caught it earlier it would have made no difference.
One would hope that with SCOTUS nominations the Republicans would force the Dems to go nuclear. If they want to filibuster then start talking, none of these threats and psuedo-filibusters. Force the real thing or put it to a vote.
Remind me to turn down any and all appointments to office if the glory of the moment of nomination appears to have overwhelmed my [retired] sensibilities. 55 to 65 is the ideal age range for USSC justices. Not any younger because those ambitious worthies are operating on theory rather than wisdom; not any older because those distinguished elderly should be home--arranging their yard gardens.
And hopefully they can prevent the next chairman of the judiciary committee from being Arlen "Scottish Law" Specter....
Yeah, that's worrisome. It implies he has a fast growing varient. Also concerning is that the median age for differentiated thyroid ca - the curable type - is in the 30's or 40's, and anaplastic tends to have a median in the 60's or 70's. Hope that's not what he has.
This is what I was thinking. Could get nasty if Kerry, God forbid, were to actually win.
Oh no. That's terrible.
ROTFL!
Prayers going out to him for a safe recovery!
With the current price of gasoline it will cost me plenty to drive over 250 miles back to New Mexico in my 9-mpg Ford 4x4 where I have to vote but nothing will keep me away from voting for GWB. Other good news is my Hispanic neighbor just visited me this morning here in west Texas and told me he saw George Bush in Alamagordo, NM this past weekend and he now plans to vote for him. Pray for miracles, they do happen.
Muleteam1
The MSM is setting the public up for the Democratic move to abolish the EC.
Just lurking on the Dark Side. They are saying that this is a Rove move and that its not breaking news and Rove planted this to get off the story of Bill Clinton and also the Weapons story. They are blaming his cancer on Rove. Disgusting!
It is indeed. My father had this about 15 years ago (although he didn't need a trach), and the net effect is that removal of the thyroid means that the patients must take thyroid replacement hormone for the rest of their lives. It happens to people of all ages, and to my knowledge, seldom is it fatal if it is treated.
It's almost always localized and is removed with surgery.
It's NOT life threatening.
Prayers. 80 years old, cancer, with a trach. Unsettling.
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