THE PLANK JULY 31, 2009
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I don't know much about Chris Dodd's specific case, obviously, but I will say that recent history shows that politicians can beat prostate cancer and carry on like nothing happened. In the past decade, both John Kerry and Rudy Giuliani have done so. Kerry even had prostate surgery in February 2003, a few months after announcing his run for president.
--Michael Crowley
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As someone who was treated for prostate cancer and is doing well, I am quite hopeful that the Senator will do well, although ignorant of the details of his diagnosis. One query: Is the Senator's treatment fall in the category of unnecessary, wasteful overly procedures continually condemned by the NY Times editorial writers and David Leonhardt, the Times leading influential columnist on health care economics who has regularly condemned prostate screening and surgery on the gorund that most prostate cancers on slow growing and likely won't prove fatal?
- thom14
July 31, 2009 at 7:11pm