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Dodd Diagnosed With Early-Stage Prostate Cancer

Don't Tase Me Bro

Don't Tase Me Bro

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Dodd is scheduled to undergo surgery during the Senate's August recess and said he expects to be back at work after a "brief recuperation" at home.

"It's something that's very common among men my age,'' said Dodd, who is 65 and the father of two young daughters. "In fact, one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point during their life.''

Hartford Courant
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Yes, I am about to politicize this and if you have a problem with it, too bad. You're a wuss.

It’s rather ironic that Senator Dodd has been inflicted with prostate cancer while at the same time he is one of those running around supporting socialized health care in this country. The survival rate for American men with prostate cancer is 81.2%. Take a look at the countries that have socialized health care, or what people like Dodd wish to refer to as the “public option.” In France, the survival rate of men with prostate cancer is 61.7% and in the U.K 44.3%.

The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care by David Gratzer, City Journal Summer 2007

Of course, Dodd wouldn’t be using the “public option” anyway. The Democrats’ health care plan is so good that the Congress exempted itself from having to participate in it.
 
Don't Tase Me Bro said:
Yes, I am about to politicize this and if you have a problem with it, too bad. You're a wuss.

It’s rather ironic that Senator Dodd has been inflicted with prostate cancer while at the same time he is one of those running around supporting socialized health care in this country. The survival rate for American men with prostate cancer is 81.2%. Take a look at the countries that have socialized health care, or what people like Dodd wish to refer to as the “public option.” In France, the survival rate of men with prostate cancer is 61.7% and in the U.K 44.3%.

The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care by David Gratzer, City Journal Summer 2007

Of course, Dodd wouldn’t be using the “public option” anyway. The Democrats’ health care plan is so good that the Congress exempted itself from having to participate in it.
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I would not wish that on our worst enemy.

What a coincidence.
 
I'm a wuss. I wouldn't politicize this.
 
I hope he gets a Ted Kennedy size tumor , he is another crook who deserves no sympathy
 
What with all the diseases that effect females exclusively, I'm reeeally glad that, as a woman, I'll never have to worry about this one.
It is very common, and it sounds just awful.
 
I didn't realize Dodd HAD balls!

/distasteful
 
submarinepainter said:
I hope he gets a Ted Kennedy size tumor , he is another crook who deserves no sympathy
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News flash! Most politicians are crooked. Is it really fair to wish death upon this man just because of the D behind his name?
 
Midwest Lib said:
News flash! Most politicians are crooked. Is it really fair to wish death upon this man just because of the D behind his name?
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Would it be OK to wish death on all of them as long as it is non-partisian?


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TOJ said:
Would it be OK to wish death on all of them as long as it is non-partisian?


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While it may be considered by some to be in bad taste, I find your request reasonable!
 
Dav said:
I didn't realize Dodd HAD balls!

/distasteful
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:prof Prostate cancer arises/originates from the cells of the prostate gland, not the testicles.
 
Dodd's 65 and has prostate cancer. I wonder how anxious he would be to select the public option. I wonder if PBO has called him and told him to just take a pain pill.

Irony is a MF'er.
 
1069 said:
What with all the diseases that effect females exclusively, I'm reeeally glad that, as a woman, I'll never have to worry about this one.
It is very common, and it sounds just awful.
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It's the second leading cause of cancer deaths among men in the USA. First is lung cancer.




....but then I have no sympathy for this hypocrite.
 
Would the test that detected Dodd's cancer been covered by the government insurance?
 
I bet Frank Zappa would have something to say about this if he were still alive. :mrgreen:
 
danarhea said:
I bet Frank Zappa would have something to say about this if he were still alive. :mrgreen:
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What would Frank have to say? Sing, "Dynamo Hum"?
 
It makes me happy to see Dodd so optimistic, since my father was just diagnosted with early state prostate cancer last week.

Do any of you above who have made nasty comments about Dodd want to wish death on my father?
 
Don't Tase Me Bro said:
Yes, I am about to politicize this and if you have a problem with it, too bad. You're a wuss.

It’s rather ironic that Senator Dodd has been inflicted with prostate cancer while at the same time he is one of those running around supporting socialized health care in this country. The survival rate for American men with prostate cancer is 81.2%. Take a look at the countries that have socialized health care, or what people like Dodd wish to refer to as the “public option.” In France, the survival rate of men with prostate cancer is 61.7% and in the U.K 44.3%.

The Ugly Truth About Canadian Health Care by David Gratzer, City Journal Summer 2007

Of course, Dodd wouldn’t be using the “public option” anyway. The Democrats’ health care plan is so good that the Congress exempted itself from having to participate in it.
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So you hear this news and the first thing you can think of is to rush over here and write a completely post that shows you have neither morals, taste, or knowledge. The reason the U.S. has higher cancer survival rates has nothing, got this, NOTHING to do with the type of health care.

Boston Globe
Critics of health reform frequently point to cancer as proof that American healthcare really is superior. And, it’s true, the US has, overall, the world’s highest five-year survival rate for cancer. But that’s partly a product of the unparalleled amount of government-funded research in the US - something healthcare reform would not diminish. Besides, it’s not as if the gap is as large or meaningful as reform critics frequently suggest. France (like a few other European countries) has survival rates that are generally close and, for some cancers, higher. Much of the remaining difference reflects differences in treatment patterns that have nothing to do with insurance arrangements and everything to do with idiosyncratic medical cultures. This is particularly true of prostate cancer, where a staggeringly high survival rate in the US seems to be largely a product of aggressive US treatment - treatment that physicians in other countries, and increasingly many specialists here, consider unnecessary and sometimes harmful.
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Got that? Let's repeat that again: Unparalleled amount of government-funded research. You know, kind of "socialistic".

Epic fail with this thread, my only hope for you is you quickly lose your insurance, get diagnosed with cancer, go bankrupt and.....

Seriously, is ignorance a badge of honor with you people?
 
aps said:
It makes me happy to see Dodd so optimistic, since my father was just diagnosted with early state prostate cancer last week.

Do any of you above who have made nasty comments about Dodd want to wish death on my father?
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You should probably tell them how your father feels about government healthcare before they answer. After all, their sense of humanity appears to be based on political affiliation.
 
aps said:
It makes me happy to see Dodd so optimistic, since my father was just diagnosted with early state prostate cancer last week.

Do any of you above who have made nasty comments about Dodd want to wish death on my father?
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Knowing the mentality and morality of some of these, if your father is Liberal then probably they do. You know, they being the party of morality and all.
 
sam_w said:
Knowing the mentality and morality of some of these, if your father is Liberal then probably they do. You know, they being the party of morality and all.
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Excellent point.

(He's a liberal living in Massachusetts (but born in the red state of Wyoming).)
 
apdst said:
Would the test that detected Dodd's cancer been covered by the government insurance?
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Not for anyone over sixty.

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Korimyr the Rat said:
You should probably tell them how your father feels about government healthcare before they answer. After all, their sense of humanity appears to be based on political affiliation.
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Maybe he should just take the blue pill and wait for the end.


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Even in the US, prostate cancer is often not aggressively treated in men over 60.
Many types of prostate cancer are so slow-growing that a care plan of "watchful waiting" is recommended, rather than going in surgically and yanking out the prostate, which can result in a marked decrease in the quality of the patient's life.
The reason for this is that with a cancer so slow-growing, it is almost certain that the patient will die of something else before the prostate cancer kills him, or negatively impacts his life.
If you're 74, and you've got a cancer that will take 20 years to even begin to cause symptoms, is it really worth submitting to a painful, expensive, and incapacitating surgery that may leave you both impotent and incontinent, and may not even cure your cancer?

That's what I've read, anyway. It makes sense.
 
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