Key Shiite Leader Hakim Says He’s Cured Of Lung Cancer
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Baghdad, Nov 19, (VOI) – Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), returned home on Monday from the Iranian capital Tehran where he was on a “visit to complement treatment” that took more than five months.
Hakim, also the leader of the (Shiite) Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC), the largest bloc in the Iraqi parliament with 82 out of a total 275 seats, had spent five months in Tehran, where he was receiving treatment from lung cancer, before returning to Baghdad last month, according to an SIIC statement.
“I finished all treatment stages and I am now healed as notified by the physicians,” Hakim was quoted by the statement as saying.
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Humm - Wonder what type of cancer. Taking into account that most lung cancer is caused by smoking that in most cases thoracic surgery or a partial pneumonectomy / full pneumonectomy is the best option to remove the cancer for best survival (Depending on the type of cancer). With the partial pneumonectomy in most cases use of an oxygen tank for the rest of your life is less then a full pneumonectomy. If you see newer tapes of him and hes not moving around much, you know why. With a full pneumonectomy, the patient is left almost bedridden and common tasks become quite tiresome.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:17 amAdding to above:
Either way the outlook tends to be grim for a lung cancer diagnosis. The lung cancer survival rate is less then 5 years after diagnosis.
Here is a good link
http://seer.cancer.gov/publications/mecc/mecc_lung.pdf
November 20th, 2007 at 10:20 am