Toronto Mayor Rob Ford hospitalized with abdominal tumor, maybe has cancer
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who’s made numerous headlines over the past year over a crack-smoking video scandal, is being hospitalized for an abdominal tumor, and is being tested for cancer.
Wednesday night president of Humber River Hospital Dr. Rueben Devlin, and the Rob Ford’s brother Coun. Doug Ford made an announcement about the mayor’s health. He had been feeling pain for about three months, but it had gotten significantly worse. The doctor says a CT scan showed a tumor, but right now they are waiting for results of a biopsy to determine whether or not it’s malignant.
“It saddens me that I have to be here today,” Doug Ford said during the press conference. “Rob is in good spirits and I want to thank the well wishers.” He said he had breakfast earlier that morning with his brother, and he was com paining of stomach pains. When the pain got unbearable, he sought medical help.
Before winning the 2010 mayoral election, he had had a tumor on his appendix removed, and his father died of colon cancer in 2006. Rob had reported being in good health after leaving an intensive, two-month rehab program earlier this summer. He sought professional help after two videos emerged of him smoking crack, which he eventually admitted to doing during a “drunken stupor”:
