Presidential candidate John Kerry in robust health say the senator's doctors

News.Com.AU ^ | October 3, 2004 | staff writer

[Ruth A.]

Mr Kerry, 60, has had five surgeries for sports-related injuries, the most recent in March to repair an old biking injury aggravated during the campaign.

It sounds as if sKerry were his own worst enemy. But we already knew that.

His doctors say he is cured.

I think it is remarkable that a doctor would say this after one year. I thought they liked to reserve opinion on cancers for five years.

All in all, I suspect this is a memo written up by the DNC or Dan Rather. Highly suspicous.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I would think shrapnel of the size and depth described would have resulted in a wound that would have required more than a band-aid. Perhaps stitches and a minimum of lost time. Could be wrong, but color me skeptical.

[chainsaw]

All his physical attributes. How about his mental health?

[paulat]

Prostatectomy doesn't "cure" prostate cancer any more than a mastectomy cures breast cancer. It's a systemic disease.

I'm sorry...but that's just ignorant.

[BIGZ]

I guess that Kerry has finally become impotent.

[binger]

[ArmyBratCutie]

IF it were really that, dont you think, as vain as Kerry is, he would have had it out by now....I sure do.....

[contessa machiaveli]

i think you know why the dr. mentioned that.

[Innisfree]

Catching it in the early stages is certainly favorable but it does not "cure" his disease. The ailing prostate is merely a symptom of an underlying condition.

[Innisfree]

Then please do enlighten me. You believe he has been cured? Cancer is a systemic disease process with local manifestations. Surgery prevents an outbreak from spreading but it cannot cure the persistent weakness in his immune system. Mr. Kerry can do well if he takes the proper steps to treat his condition. A harrowing and physically exhausting bid for the presidency is not indicated.

[paulat]

Then please do enlighten me. You believe he has been cured? Cancer is a systemic disease process with local manifestations. Surgery prevents an outbreak from spreading but it cannot cure the persistent weakness in his immune system. Mr. Kerry can do well if he takes the proper steps to treat his condition. A harrowing and physically exhausting bid for the presidency is not indicated.

I am a breast cancer survivor. I got it at age 26. I am now almost 49. You are toally ignorant. Ask Rudy Giuliani if he considers himself "cured."

People with your backward ideas are a cancer.

[paulat]

Then please do enlighten me. You believe he has been cured? Cancer is a systemic disease process with local manifestations. Surgery prevents an outbreak from spreading but it cannot cure the persistent weakness in his immune system. Mr. Kerry can do well if he takes the proper steps to treat his condition. A harrowing and physically exhausting bid for the presidency is not indicated.

I am a breast cancer survivor. I got it at age 26. I am now almost 49. You are toally ignorant. Ask Rudy Giuliani if he considers himself "cured."

People with your backward ideas are a cancer.