I just heard Ford has tongue cancer

[proud2BlibKansan]

Deep Throat?

[alfredo]

1. tongue cancer is

common in pipe smokers.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Is it fatal?

[alfredo]

9. If it spreads to the throat

it is much harder to stop.

[AlienGirl]

18. 50% chance of survival at 5 years

The preferred treatment currently is hemiglossectomy followed by radiation.

Seventy-five percent of the time, it comes back within 10 years, and twenty-year survival rate is under 40%.

Tucker

[njdemocrat106]

21. Of course, 10 years from now Ford will be 102 n/t

[AlienGirl]

22. Yeah, there's the rub with tongue cancer stats

Most people who get it don't have a realistic shot at another 20 years anyway. So for the one-in-a-million who get it early in life, nobody has a clue.

Tucker (T2N0M0, surgery yada yada in 02, in remission ever since)

[Goldeneye]

2. weird timing for sure.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. very weird indeed

[ljm2002]

3. Wouldn't that be something?

Talk about a conflict of interest!

[Warpy]

5. It's also treatable if it hasn't spread

Besides, DT reportedly liked his cigarettes and scotch, not a pipe.

My money's still either on Rehnquist or on some inner circle flunky we never heard of.

[On Par]

7. Ford Was In No Position To Be Deep Throat. It Was....

....A White House Insider. Fred Fielding, deputy counsel to former President Richard Nixon.

OP... Okay, so now you know.

[HEyHEY]

24. Actually there's evidence to suggest it was James Belushi

[On Par]

25. Was That Before Or After Belushi Made....

...Animal House?

OP

[alfredo]

13. I was commenting on Ford, not DT. Ford was the pipe smoker

A pipe really concentrates hot smoke on your tongue.

[dweller]

8. too bizarre.....link?

Deep Throat dies of tongue cancer.....what a headline.

dp

[Wind Dancer]

10. LOL!

[Dookus]

11. his daughter

was on a local radio show today (she's the new head of the Betty Ford Center). She said her father is in fine health.

[two gun sid]

12. He kissed so many asses when he was in The House...

I'm suprised his tongue hasn't fallen off by now. That ignorant bastard saved Nixon from a criminal trial. I can never forgive him for that. I don't think he was smart enough to be Deep Throat. LBJ said Ford couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. link?

[mb7588a]

15. aug 5, 2000 link

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/05/president.ford/

[FreedomAngel82]

20. What a cute picture of Kerry

I love the picture of him with the little girl. I have another one of him from the 80's (it appears to be) with a little group of kids and a little foreign girl is laying her head on his knee. Seems like little kids like to lay on Kerry. :) Sweet. You never see kids with Bush laying on him like that. It's mostly babies and most of the time they don't look to happy.

[seabeyond]

16. did he smoke? n/t

[pacalo]

17. Where did you hear this?

Didn't find anything about the cancer on Google, but there were a couple of articles about problems he's had with his tongue:

During the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Ford appeared "sluggish and sick" on television during a tribute to him. A few hours later, shortly after midnight on Wednesday, August 2, Ford presented to the emergency room at Hahnemann University Hospital, complaining of facial pain. The physician diagnosis was "a sinus attack." Ford stayed only a half-hour, and declined the recommendation to have a CT scan <4>.

Upon awakening on Wednesday morning, Ford had new symptoms and returned to the hospital. He apparently had left arm weakness, balance difficulties, and slurred speech <4>. A stroke was diagnosed and he was treated with "blood thinners" <4>.

The slurred speech, however, was ascribed to a swollen, painful tongue, which proved to be abscessed with actinomycosis. (This is an exceedingly rare cause of a tongue abscess.) The abscess was drained under general anesthesia <6>. (It is not clear when the anticoagulants were started, in relation to the abscess drainage.)

Later, a Ford spokesman declared that Ford had developed tongue pain while in Colorado, before Ford departing for the convention <6>.

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g38.htm

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. I heard it from an idiot freeper

I just went back and asked him for a link.

[hector459]

19. Does Ford look like Hal Holbrook?

Any picture of Hal and Gerald?

[Dob Bole]

26. Don't you get tongue cancer by lying?

er, something like that