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"Presidential candidates with cancer"

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Anonymous Nimrod said...

I saw an interesting segment on Sky News, yesterday, about the development in a London hospital of a new treatment for some types of lung cancer. They feed a tube down the mouth/nose into the stomach and freeze sections of cancerous cells with liquid nitrogen.

That said, I'm sure the Americans are way ahead of us on this.

5/7/07, 5:52 AM

Anonymous Ian Lewis said...

Hi Steve, what is CHOP? As in, "The standard treatment for aggressive lymphoma is today CHOP chemotherapy and Rituxan..."

Around my area, CHOP stands for Children's Hospital Of Philadelphia.

5/7/07, 6:29 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

why does the media care about HIV so much more than cancer? cancer is certainly more dangerous to humans.

i don't know what the research spending is on cancer versus HIV, but it should be about 10 to 1. probably more.

5/7/07, 6:36 AM

Anonymous Big Steve said...

Media full of homos.

5/7/07, 7:30 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

CHOP chemotherapy is cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone.

5/7/07, 7:37 AM

Anonymous Ian Lewis said...

"CHOP chemotherapy is cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone."

Thanks.

5/7/07, 8:35 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve:

You forget to mention Giuliani, who had prostate cancer. That would make at least three of the presidential candidates to had cancer.

5/7/07, 10:42 AM

Anonymous tggp said...

Cancer kills more people, but they're old people. HIV tends to kill younger people, and we're more upset about the deaths of the young (perhaps we are attempting to minimize the expected number of life-years lost). Also, people with cancer or at-risk haven't formed the sort of activist groups that were formed for HIV. I agree that the funding is lopsided, although I'm also opposed to all government funding of pretty much anything other than defense.

5/7/07, 10:43 AM

Blogger Steve Sailer said...

Lymphoma, in particular, is a disease that strikes extraordinarily at random, which makes it hard to put together a political coalition to get funds to fight it. Breast cancer strikes your mom, prostate cancer your rich uncle (it's a disease of high-testosterone hard-chargers like Giuliani, Norman Schwarzkopf, Bob Dole, Michael Milken, and Arnold Palmer). AIDS, of course, has the most tight knit political coalition of all. But lymphoma victims are as random as people born on Thursday.

5/7/07, 11:04 AM

Anonymous Udolpho said...

Little did Khrushchev know that a combination of speed and steroids would make JFK wildly hyper-reactive when pushed. Thank God his grandstanding didn't wipe out both countries.

5/7/07, 1:30 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good point about JFK Steve. I have never understood the hagiography of JFK among liberal and dem circles much less the conspiracy theory idiots. Oswald did it, because he was a lunatic Communist. The forerunner of the Daily Kos idiots.

5/7/07, 1:48 PM

Anonymous SFG said...

prostate cancer your rich uncle (it's a disease of high-testosterone hard-chargers like Giuliani, Norman Schwarzkopf, Bob Dole, Michael Milken, and Arnold Palmer).
Hmmm...what an interesting observation. I wonder if there really is some sort of correlation between testosterone levels within normal levels and prostate cancer?

5/7/07, 2:04 PM

Blogger ricpic said...

If Thompson is the Republican candidate how big a factor will his cancer, albeit of the slow growth variety, be in the campaign? How will he finesse it? How will Hillary or Obama keep it front and center, all the while making protestations about the high road?

5/7/07, 2:48 PM

Blogger Sean said...

does HIV really kill more young people than cancer? i don't have the research but i bet even at age 30, they are equal killers. in straight men and women, i bet cancer has the lead at every age.

by age 45 cancer in a landslide. just at the time when many people assume leadership positions in society and can least afford to die from cancer.

5/7/07, 4:28 PM

Anonymous Richie Fleiger said...

Oddly, the most nearly disastrous health problems were those of the youngest elected President, JFK, who was in a lot of pain much of his life. He was so pilled-up and unimpressive when he first met Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 that the Soviet supremo thought he could push the playboy around over missiles in Cuba.

Didn't keep him from getting on top of Marilyn Monroe, did it?

5/7/07, 6:48 PM

Blogger dearieme said...

Don't overlook cancer of the personality. I'm thinking of Little Madam Cattle-Futures.

5/8/07, 10:48 AM

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