TORONTO — A doctor says Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will undergo 40 days of chemotherapy to treat a rare cancer that forced him to drop his bid for re-election.
Dr. Zane Cohen, a colorectal surgeon at Mount Sinai hospital, said Wednesday Ford has a malignant liposarcoma. Ford has been hospitalized for a week with a tumor in his abdomen and the news of the cancer comes just days after Ford’s dramatic announcement that he was pulling out of a re-election campaign.
Cohen said the cancer is spreading and the mayor will be treated with intensive chemotherapeutic agents within the next two days.
He said Ford had a CT scan in 2011 and there was no sign of the tumor then. “But we’re treating this very aggressively in order to eradicate the tumor.”
The mayor withdrew his re-election bid Friday, ending a campaign he had doggedly pursued despite calls for him to quit amid drug and alcohol scandals and a stint in rehab.
Doug Ford, who is running for mayor in his brother’s place, said the mayor is crushed.
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