Rob Ford to learn Thursday if he can get cancer surgery
Councillor Rob Ford (open Rob Ford's policard) said he expects to learn Thursday if he can have potentially life-saving surgery to remove a cancerous tumour from his abdomen.
On Tuesday night, Toronto’s former mayor told Joe Warmington on Newstalk 1010 radio that he will meet with his surgical team Thursday to determine if the tumour has shrunk enough for them to operate.
Ford was diagnosed last September with a rare and aggressive cancer.
Ford, who underwent multiple rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, has quoted his doctors as saying the abdominal tumour needed to shrink to about three centimetres before surgeons will operate.
The 45-year-old married father of two young children underwent and MRI and CT scan Friday.
He said then that, if the scans show the tumour is too big to be removed, “it just means they can’t do anything more for me.”