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Toronto city councillor and former mayor Rob Ford says he is "99 per cent sure" a newly discovered tumour is "malignant."

"I'm an optimist, but I'm a realist, too," Ford told reporters outside Mount Sinai Hospital Thursday afternoon. "If it's spread once, where else has it gone?"

Ford's comments were the first he's made since the tumour was discovered.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-tumour-1.3294613
 
doug said 'extensive' chemo would be needed, vs....
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If it isn't malignant, why would they use chemo? Chemo isn't popping Tylenol - you don't use it unless you have to.

I wonder if they will use the same chemotherapeutic agents given resistance.

AoD
 
video of rob here...
Emotional Rob Ford talks about trying to stay positive, optimistic...
The city councillor said doctors believed the tumour was similar to the pleomorphic liposarcoma he was diagnosed with in Sept. 2014 that was surgically removed in May.
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https://twitter.com/globalnewsto/status/659809951229960192

in that video he says he had the pain for about a month, vs....
only days after hosting an election campaign event for Conservative leader Stephen Harper, Ford began to suffer unusual abdominal pains. After a round of tests at Mount Sinai Hospital, his medical team found the new growth.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/toronto/rob-ford-has-new-tumour

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Recurrence is a lifelong fear for Canada’s thousands of cancer survivors, and patients with variants of Ford’s disease have reported suffering tumour recurrences as many as four times.
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he admitted he may have to go through five rounds of chemotherapy.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2015/10/29/rob-ford-back-to-square-one-with-new-tumour

If the chemotherapy expected to begin next week is successful, doctors will operate on the tumour around Christmas time, Ford said. If the initial chemotherapy proves unsuccessful, he said doctors will compete three more rounds before operating sometime in 2016.
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http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/rob-fo...=&hootPostID=9b091def20bd134d3e76ca64efc0c76a

the ctvnews link has a video, and towards the end natalie says rob's mulled over going down to the states for treatment... either new york or texas in the weeks or months ahead.

would they let him in the country this time?
 
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animatronic said:
I've told my work that if I get killed in a car crash I expect them to hire my 20-year old niece, because my clients will insist on it.
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From "Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable" (I just finished it): "According to Nick, in the last days of the campaign, Doug had asked Nick what would happen if Rob died in office. Doug thought he should replace him. I looked at Nick, stunned. "Are you serious?" Perhaps Doug was joking, but it rang true. If the Ford family had been elected mayor, as Doug believed, naturally the throne would pass to family if Rob died."

Interesting read, probably not for everyone. It's also not told in chronological order which had me almost wanting to start a chart so I could keep track of what happened when and how close was it to this gaff or that incident. Towhey's narrative was a little "Look at me handle this!" sometimes, but it was also quite funny in places as well (I lol'd). I found it to be quite the page-turner if only to find out how Doug was going to manage to out-a-hole himself from the previous page. I guess I'm easily amused.
 
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Kudos to Jennifer from the Toronto Star for being the only one from the media (from what I've seen) to mention the confusion:

Jennifer Pagliaro ‏@jpags - So, some confusion. Doug Ford said Rob definitely needed chemo, would start early next week. Rob saying not clear if tumour is malignant.
https://twitter.com/jpags/status/659808615952465924
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According Amanda Ferguson's tweet, Rob said it's "99 per cent" sure it's malignant. What's confusing about that? Rob's holding out a bit of faint hope the news will change. Not surprising under the circumstances.
 
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