Cancer rumors swirl around Putin

NY Post ^ | Oct. 24, 2014 | Richard Johnson

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There is an explanation for Vladimir Putin’s hurry to invade Ukraine — it is rumored he has cancer.

News outlets from Belarus to Poland have reported for months that the Russian strongman has cancer of the spinal cord. But my sources say it’s pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal forms of the disease.

Putin is allegedly being treated by an elderly doctor from the old East Germany whom Putin met decades ago while serving in Dresden for the KGB. The doctor has been trying various treatments including steroid shots, which would explain Putin’s puffy appearance.

The physician, who is 84 years old, quit recently, confiding that he hated coming to Russia and was always mistreated by Putin’s security detail.

Crispin Black, the British army veteran who reports on terrorism and intelligence, reported earlier this year that recurring rumors about Putin’s health “are back again with a vengeance.”

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I heard it was pancreatic cancer. He’ll be gone within 2 yrs probably.

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Aren’t the wages of life, death?

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???

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I had a cousin who died within 18 months of diagnosis

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99% of the time, those affected by Pancreatic Cancer don't know it until it's already way too late.

My Sister in Law survived 15 months with Pancreatic Cancer, and that was after she went to the hospital one day with "flu like symptoms" (pain in the stomach, unable to eat/hold food down) and was given only 3 months to live.

My Aunt managed to go almost 2 years with it, while a good friend of the family who's wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer passed in under 45 days.

It is a horrible, viscious, painful form of cancer that spares no one. It's absolutely terrible watchng someone wither away and die from it because that's what happens to people with pancreatic cancer: they wither away right before our very eyes.