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Thompson Runs for President at Risk of Cancer Return (Update2) 

By Angela Zimm

Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate Fred
Thompson, treated for cancer three years ago, will always face the
risk that the disease will return, doctors say. 

Thompson, 65, has a slow-growing form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a
cancer of the immune system that is treatable, while rarely curable.
His disease has been in remission since it was diagnosed and treated
in 2004, according to Thompson. He disclosed the cancer in April when
he began considering a presidential bid, although he hasn't released
his medical records. 

...

Thompson's cancer is an uncommon form called nodal marginal zone
lymphoma, which accounts for 2 percent to 4 percent of all cases,
according to Owen O'Connor, chief of the lymphoma service at Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center in New York and author of about 100
research papers on the disease. 

`Hard to Prognosticate' 

``Because this is so rare -- there are about 1,500 cases per year in
the U.S. -- it's hard to prognosticate,'' O'Connor said in an
interview. ``Most of the statistics you see on the National Cancer
Institute Web site are old data. It's very hard to reach broad
generalizations.'' 

Thompson's doctor, Bruce Cheson, head of hematology and oncology at
Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, told CNN in April that
his patient had no evidence of the disease after being treated and
that many such patients ``can live a normal life span.'' 

``The indolent, or slow-growing lymphomas are very treatable, but
rarely if ever curable,'' Cheson said in the April interview.
``Therefore, his likelihood of recurring is high, but this may not
happen for a number of years.'' 




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