My youngest son was diagnosed with a rare, and deadly, bone cancer: Ewings Sarcoma. It has a very low survival rate, particularly when located where his was. He went through the tortures of the damned with the cut/burn/poison treatments. He was told he had very little chance of surviving, that he would loose his arm and that if he did survive, he'd not have children due to the treatments.
That was 25 years ago. His attitude was "Yeah, watch me." He has his arm 0 and three beautiful children, ages 10 to 16.
Forget statistics. Reality is Fred is fine now and with his attitude on life and his demeanor, I rather think he will be around some time longer than his 8 years in office - and so will we...which might not be the case if hitlery and gang get in.
Let's not let the enemy parade this slyly as an issue not to vote for Fred
The type of cancer Rudy had would very rarely kill within 10-15 years. With treatment such as he had, it usually doesn’t kill at all. Even if it comes back, it’s usually very slowly, and the man ends up dying of some common old age ailment first. It’s really not at all comparable to non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Thompson is very likely to require heavy duty treatment, with debilitating side effects, at some point between January 2009 and December 2012. Giuliani is not.
Ok I may be confused, so help me get this straight.
Fred's 65, he can expect to live at least another 5 to 10 years with this disease and the average life expectancy of a white male in the United States is a hair over 75 correct?
So where's the problem other than the fact we're all going to die one day unless the Lord comes back in our lifetimes?
See post 11. The fact is we don’t know how this will affect
him. He’s 67, with cancer and facing a gruehling schedule for the next 14 months. Those are not in his favor. He has a good prognosis and spirit, they are. We don’t want it to influence voting but I can guarantee over the next year the whole country is going to be a lot more familiar with Hodgkins disease.
Okay, lets. As I recall, it came up while Rudy was running for the Senate against Hillary. It forced him to drop out of the race, leaving his GOP replacement candidate to try to beat the Clinton machine at the last minute.
And that, boys and girls, is why her heinous is a US Senator today.
There are many different kinds of non-hodgkin’s lymphoma, not just one. The virulence of the cancer varies widely. We’re told here that the particular type is “low grade.”
Here’s a great resource on the particular lymphoma Senator Thompson has, “peripheral nodal marginal zone B-cell:”
http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/Lymphomanon-Hodgkin/TypesofNHL/NodalmarginalzoneB-cell